[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.3.0 has been released
- From: "G.Braille" <g.braille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:42:26 -0400
Dear Christian and all,
Greeting!
I would like to clarify with regards to the Ethiopic or Ethiopian Braille
contribution and related credit.
I Tamru E. Belay an Ethiopian origin has developed the Ethiopic Braille for
the first time with Duxbury in year 2006.
Next, in year 2009, I have designed and developed again the Ethiopic Braille
with additional Ethiopic Braille tables for the WinBraille the Index company
product. I know, the Winbraille is not supporting anymore 32 bit.
Now, in April 2011, I have contributed and worked with Peter Engström on
Ethiopian or Ethiopic Braille table for the Liblouis project.
Actually, the original Ethiopic Braille table is the one I have donated to
the Index company and for the Duxbury as well.
Finally, the appropriate Ethiopian Braille is called: "Ethiopic Braille".
Therefore, may I request the Liblouis project to recognize and give credit
to Tamru E. Belay PH.D for the Ethiopic Braille too?
Thanks for the Liblouis project team for the good job what you are doing.
Cordially,
Dr. Tamru E. Belay.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tamru
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Egli" <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
To: "liblouis-liblouisxml" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:34 AM
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] liblouis 2.3.0 has been released
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
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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
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[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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