[macvoiceover] Louis - The Macintosh braille translator
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mary Beth Janes <mjanes@xxxxxxxxx>, Keith Reedy <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>, Iain Murray <i.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:55:31 -0600
Louis - The Macintosh braille translator is ready for beta testing.
Louis is a full featured braille translator for the Apple Macintosh
program. Designed around liblouis and liblouisxml Louis is designed
to compete with Duxbury and similar commercial programs used to
produce braille. Here is a features list:
Full Mac GUI with VoiceOver support
Full online and local documentation
Translation of MS Word, text, XML, HTML DocBook, DAISY/NIMAS, NewsML
Ability to learn new XML based formats
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 programs and files are free, open source.
Please visit http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/ for more information
and downloads. Please test and get back with me.
Greg Kearney
gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
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