[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: introduction, liblouis bindings for other languages and possible linux/multi-OS grafical application
- From: Rui Batista <ruiandrebatista@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:34:41 +0000
Hi John,
I've looked at liblouisxml documentation and source code and seems very
interessting too. I tested translating some text files to read on my
braillenote and the results seem very good.
Is there a more recent version then the one present on
www.jjb-software.om? Svn repository or something?
Regarding the gui application I will look at the mac one docs and source
code and see if is there anyway we can do a port or something (might be
a good thing for learning) but reading just the description I think is
more or less what I wanted to have on linux.
Best Regards,
Rui Batista
Qua, 2008-02-20 às 03:55 -0600, John J. Boyer escreveu:
> Rui,
>
> As you mention, there are already Python bindings for Orca. I would like
> to hear from the Orca people how general they are. Java bindings would
> be a very nice thing to have. You might like to look at liblouisxml as
> well as liblouis. While liblouis does braille translation and
> back-translation, liblouisxml does a complete job of braille
> transcription, including formatting into paragraphs, headers, etc,
> insertion of page numbers, translation of math, and much more.
>
> Cross-platform applications would be nice, but I understand that it is
> hard to make them accessible. There is documntation on the Mac
> application, called louis, at a link on http://www.jjb-software.com .
>
> There is also an experimental Web application, which I will describe in
> another message.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:54:55AM +0000, Rui Batista wrote:
> > Hi Mr. John and all,
> >
> > I'm Rui Batista, a blind Portuguese computer engenering student at
> > Instituto Superior T??cnico here in Lisbon, Portugal. I heard about
> > liblouis, and reading the documentation, using liblouis with the test
> > tools and looking a bit at the source code I became very excited about
> > this software. I've always missed a good software to work with braille
> > on the computer (the good ones aren't sould here in portugal and even
> > are not translated/adapted to portuguese) and I would like to help
> > someway with liblouis development.
> >
> > I'm skilled in c, python and java, and can use other programming
> > languages too (PHP, scheme, C++, and some 8086 ASM sometimes). I never
> > did serious development (at least out of the univercity), just did some
> > spuradical contributions to NVDA and some other none accessibility
> > related stuff. I would like to get working on something useful and
> > interessting, and liblouis seems really fascinating.
> >
> > I had some ideas for what I would like or could be helping with libouis:
> >
> > Bindings for other languages:
> > E think python/java bindings will be useful. Regarding python, I do know
> > there are some orca specific bindings but they use c compiled extensions
> > and I don't really know if porting to other platforms would be easy. I'm
> > more inclined for a ctypes like aprotch... And actually I prefere a more
> > OOP like interface, not just wrapping the c functions. What do you think
> > about this?
> > Regarding java I think bindings will be possible and possibly easy to
> > implement but I'm not aquinted with java/c mechanisms yet.
> >
> > Grafical software using liblouis:
> > I do know there is a MAC application using liblouis to translate and
> > backtranslate braille, but because I don't have access to a MAC based
> > computer I can't test it. Can you give me more information about this
> > application, what it does, etc.? I wanted some kind of cross platform
> > application (ok, I always wanted many things in life lol), maby java
> > with swt (seems the best accessible java thing outthere), or something
> > else. I'm running linux allmost full time and a gtk (pygtk or plain gtk
> > using c) seems interessting too, but the cross platform thing is
> > compromised. What do you think about this?
> >
> > I'm sorry for such a long message, and possible some strange sounding
> > english (you know that's not my first language...)...
> >
> > Best Regards
> > --
> > Rui Batista
> > e-mail: ruiandrebatista (at) gmail (dot) com
> > msn/wlm: ruiandrebatista (at) hotmail (dot) com
> > weblog pessoal: http://outputstream.wordpress.com
> >
> > For a description of the software and to download it go to
> > http://www.jjb-software.com
>
--
Rui Batista
e-mail: ruiandrebatista (at) gmail (dot) com
msn/wlm: ruiandrebatista (at) hotmail (dot) com
weblog pessoal: http://outputstream.wordpress.com
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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