[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouisxml 2.4.0 has been released
- From: Neil Soiffer <NeilS@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:54:58 -0700
It would be really useful to let people who visit the liblouisxml website
that they should be using liblouisutdml. I know that I wasted time on using
liblouisxml only to eventually find that I should have been using
liblouisutdml.
Neil
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, John J. Boyer <
john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great work, Christian! Note that development has now moved to
> liblouisutdml. So liblouisxml can be considered stable, but bugs will
> still be corrected. Both Bert and I will make future changes to
> liblouisutdml. It has a googlecode page with not much except the
> Mercurial repository. We do need someone to update the rest of the page,
> and we also need to bring the documentation up to date. liblouisxmll
> also needs its documentation updated.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:56:26PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> >
> > liblouisxml 2.4.0 has been released
> >
> > The liblouisxml developer team is proud to announce the liblouisxml
> > release 2.4.0. The release is available for download at:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/downloads/list
> >
> > Introduction
> > ------------
> >
> > Liblouisxml is a library intended to provide complete braille
> > transcription services for xml documents. It translates into
> > appropriate braille codes and formats according to its style sheet and
> > the specifications in the document. A command-line program, xml2brl
> > which uses this library is also included. The latest version of
> > liblouis is required.
> >
> > Changes in this release
> > -----------------------
> >
> > This release brings in the many bug fixes and feature enhancements that
> > Bert Frees has done while working on the odt2braille Braille extension
> > to OpenOffice.org Writer[1].
> >
> > New features
> > =============
> > * xpath expression handling
> > Element specifiers for semantic actions can now be defined in terms
> > of xpath expressions
> >
> > * New style attributes
> > - dontSplit + keepWithNext + orphanControl
> >
> > - underlinex: New style similar to italicx and boldx
> >
> > - heading5 ... heading10: Additional heading styles
> >
> > - contents5 ... contents10: Additional table of contents styles
> >
> > - centeredMargin: Prevent centered text from extending too near to
> > the left and right edges.
> >
> > - dontSplit: Protect an element from being split across multiple
> > pages.
> >
> > - keepWithNext: keep an element together with the first line of
> > the next sibling.
> >
> > - orphanControl: Control how many lines of an element must be
> > printed at least at the bottom of a Braille page.
> >
> > * New table of content parameters
> > printPageNumbersInContents + braillePageNumbersInContents
> >
> > * Many layout improvements
> > - continuePages: Enable or disable prefixing of page numbers with
> > a letter (a, b, c, etc.) on continued pages.
> >
> > - pageSeparator: Enable or disable placing of a page separator
> > line where a print page break occurs.
> >
> > - pageSeparatorNumber: Enable or disable placing of page numbers
> > with page separator lines.
> >
> > - ignoreEmptyPages: Empty pages can be ignored, or they can be
> > indicated with a combined print page number.
> >
> > - printPageNumberRange: Show only the first print page number of a
> > Braille page, or display the whole range of print pages
> > contained in a Braille page.
> >
> > - mergeUnnumberedPages: Ignore page breaks without a page number.
> >
> > - pageNumberTopSeparateLine/pageNumberBottomSeparateLine: Provide
> > a separate line for page numbers when they are placed at the top
> > or bottom.
> >
> > - printPageNumbersInContents/braillePageNumbersInContents: Enable
> > or disable print and Braille page numbers in the table of
> > contents.
> >
> > Improvements
> > =============
> > - braillePageNumberAt/printPageNumberAt: Print page numbers and
> > Braille page numbers can now both be placed at the top or bottom
> > together.
> > - Improved handling of linesBefore, linesAfter, newPageBefore,
> > newPageAfter and pagenum.
> >
> > Bug fixes
> > ==========
> > - Fixed table of content bugs
> > - Fixed braille page number should only be visible on odd pages
> > when interpoint = yes
> > - Fixed failure when new print page starts on second last line of
> > page
> > - Fixed endless loop when braillePages=yes
> >
> >
> > Share and Enjoy!
> >
> > -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouisxml developers
> >
> > Footnotes:
> > [1] http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/index.html
> >
> > --
> > Christian Egli
> > Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
> >
> > -----
> > Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein:
> > Tag der offenen Tuer am 25. Juni 2011 von 9 bis 16 Uhr.
> > Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
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