[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.3.0 has been released
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:07:15 +0800
Just wanted to drop a note to let everyone know that the latest liblouis
compiles and installs without any trouble on the latest MacOS 10.6
I'll be updating the Louis GUI in a few days with this new version.
Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
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Email: greg.kearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
On 09/05/2011, at 3:34 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
>
> liblouis 2.3.0 has been released
>
> The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 2.3.0.
> The release is available for download at:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list
>
> Introduction
> ------------
>
> Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It
> features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports
> contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1].
> It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and
> is used by screenreaders such as NVDA and Orca.
>
> Changes in this release
> -----------------------
>
> This release contains support for many more languages than before
> (Swedish, Kurdish, Ethiopian, Serbian). The search path for tables is now
> a list of paths. Finally there is the usual assortment of bug fixes.
>
> New features:
>
> - Multiple table search path
> The environment variable LOUIS_TABLEPATH can now contain a list of
> paths (separated by commas) where liblouis should look for tables.
> This allows the user to keep local tables.
> - New --quiet option for lou_checktable
> lou_checktable writes to stderr even in the case of success. This
> can now be suppressed with the new option --quiet.
> - New Swedish table
> A new table for Swedish braille has been provided by Samuel Thibault.
> - New table for Sorani (Kurdish)
> A new table for Sorani (Kurdish) Braille has been donated by Peter
> Engström from Index Braille
> - New table for Ethiopian
> A new table for Ethiopian Braille has been donated by Peter Engström
> from Index Braille
> - New table for Serbian
> A new table for Serbian Braille has been donated by Peter Engström
> from Index Braille
>
> Improved the documentation:
>
> The deprecated opcodes have been moved to a separate section
>
> Bug fixes:
>
> Fixed a long standing bug with an infinite loop in the table compiler
>
> Braille Table Improvements:
>
> - Improvements to the Chinese braille table
> - Improvements to the Flemish Braille Math Code tables
> - Improvements to the Dutch Braille tables
> - Improvements to the Spanish Braille tables.
> - Fixes for the uncontracted French 6 and 8 dot tables
> - Improved support for Italian 8 dot
> - Improvements to the Generic Arabic Grade 1 table
>
> Share and Enjoy!
>
> -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers
>
> Footnotes
> ---------
>
> [1] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/
>
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
> -----
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> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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