[macvoiceover] Re: Louis, the MacOSx braille translator

PDF is very difficult what we would need would be something that could convert PDF to something like DocBook or HTML. If we could do that then we could do the rest Louis is a very XML centric application. 

Greg
On May 13, 2007, at 20:30 , Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:


I like the idea.
Just wondeirng--how about pdf files? Could it cvonvert pdfs to Braille? 

Jane


On May 13, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I'm starting to think about a modern, full featured, free braille translator able to compete, and hopefully improve upon Duxbury which is no longer offered on the Macintosh. Built upon the foundations of John Boyer's liblouis and liblouisxml libraries Louis will be able to learn new XML based formats permitting the end user to add new existing or custom formats as needed. 

Here are some of the feature which it I am looking at.
Conversion of the following formats to braille for output on either embossers or screen readers. 
MSword
HTML
DocBook
dtbook (DAISY text)
XHTML
XML
custom XML formats, you will be able to make up your own if you want

Support for MathML to Nemeith code braille
Support for HTML based tables to braille tables.
Customizing output for numbers of cells on a line, line on a page, line and page endings, braille and print page numbers footnotes endnotes title pages and so on.
The user interface will be a combination of Cocoa based application with connections to TextEdit or similar text editor. 

What are your thought on this?

Greg Kearney



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