[macvoiceover] Re: Louis, the MacOSx braille translator

excellent! I would encourage you to give a look in to what would be available regarding latex. I really like your idea of embossing from the context menu and if you can come up with a program that rivals duxbury, is free and is actually easy to use you mostelikely will have a mob at your door. 
On May 14, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I believe there is a program to convert LaTex to either DocBook or HTML. If that is the case, and I can look into it, then yes it will work. Any file format you can turn into HTML, or in theory any form of XML will work.
When Louis and the underlying code of liblouis encounters a new XML format it does not know it will create a .sem file. The user can then edit this file telling Louis how each XML tag should be treated in braille for example which ones should be paragraphs. 

Greg Kearney
On May 14, 2007, at 06:06 , John W. Hess wrote:
greg, this would go far in the world of education especially since schools are still using the Mac. Please correct me or at least educate me here. Would the latex ormat be included? I may hav the name wrong but I am sure you know what I mean here. I have heard my education department talk about this format and don't really understand it but apparently it's used quite a bit. Wow, Greg keep up that great work. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- 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>; "voiceoverleopard" <voiceoverleopard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mary Beth Janes" <mjanes@xxxxxxxxx>; "Keith Reedy" <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Louis, the MacOSx braille translator
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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