[macvoiceover] Louis - The Macintosh Braille Translator released
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, macvoiceover <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marcy Kreiter <MKreiter@xxxxxxx>, Iain Murray <i.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith Reedy <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>, Mary Beth Janes <mjanes@xxxxxxxxx>, ataylor@xxxxxxx, Kyla Laffoon <kyla@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:43:01 -0600
Louis - The Macintosh Braille Translator version 1.0 has been
released and can be downloaded from the following web site http://
w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/
DESCRIPTION:
Louis is a full featured braille translator for the Apple Macintosh.
Designed around liblouis and liblouisxml Louis is designed to produce
braille in a wide range of formats and languages.
* Full Mac GUI with VoiceOver.
* Full online and local documentation.
* Translation of MS Word, text, XML, HTML DocBook, DAISY/NIMAS,
NewsML.
* Ability to learn new XML based formats.
* Support for a wide range of languages.
* Support for MathML to nemeth translation.
* Back translation.
* Creating and saving custom configuration files.
* Including custom files.
* Integration with TextEdit, including a TextEdit menu script.
* Braille contextual menu for translating English text to U.S.
Grade two braille in Cocoa applications.
* Braille widget for quick translations and sign making.
* Braille and BrailleShadow True Type fonts in the public domain.
* Ability to run translations from he command line.
Louis and it's support pograms are free, open source under the GNU
license. The source code for Louis can also be downloaded from the
Louis web site http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/
Greg Kearney
Wyoming Medical Center
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