[brailleblaster] Re: A Milestone Idea
- From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:23:43 -0800
Hi,
The Mac version of Ecliple creates Mac *.app bundles.
Regards,
Alex,
On 2010-11-30, at 2:10 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> There is a maven plugin for making Mac app bundles
> http://mojo.codehaus.org/osxappbundle-maven-plugin.
>
> OK, we're going to use ant so may be http://jarbundler.sf.net would be more
> suitable.
>
> I haven't looked into how powerful either of these are, it may be necessary
> to construct the app bundle through a custom ant task.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 30/11/10 21:07, John J. Boyer wrote:
>> The translate-and-emboss feature would just be a subcommand. The
>> embosser type would have been set earlier. If no embosser has been
>> chosen it will default to generic embosser, which just sends the brf
>> file to the machine. Most embossers will produce perfectly good braille
>> text with such a file. If someone wants to write the generic embosser
>> driver they should look at the print package in SWT.
>>
>> We need more information about Mac app bundles and about the mac printer
>> workflow.
>>
>> I am thinking about the posts on design and will reply later.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:03:07AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> Will text-based PDF's work as input to this command?
>>>
>>> I also tink that the perameters I specified should still be included.
>>>
>>> These features would allow me to write a printing workflow that will show
>>> up in the Mac's print dialog.
>>>
>>> I really apreciate your feedback on whether or not you think that a
>>> quick-emboss dialog should be included as part of the native platform's
>>> print dialog.
>>> think
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2010-11-29, at 11:05 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alex,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the idea. We can do even better than Louis on the Mac. The
>>>> liblouisutdml tool file1brl will be available as a subcommand. This is
>>>> basically the same as the old xml2brl. It will produce nicely formatted
>>>> braille from a template. The embosser would have been set beforehand. So
>>>> the command would look like
>>>>
>>>> brailleblaster file2brl templatename inputfilename
>>>>
>>>> This should be simple enough to do. The big problem would be getting the
>>>> embosser driver. I can help someone who wants to work on this feature.
>>>> My own work will center on laying the groundwork for the word processor.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:22:26PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking that it might be a good idea to produce a quick-Braille
>>>>> mode at the command-line for a first version. We can always add this
>>>>> later into the binary if we feel like it.
>>>>>
>>>>> My idea is a Command-Line tool that can be a sub-command of Braille
>>>>> Blaster that would allow the user to quickly emboss ad document without
>>>>> needing to format it. This is similar to the functionality of Louis for
>>>>> Mac http://www.cucat.org/projects/ but without the GUI.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example, a user could enter:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ brailleblaster quickemboss --width 40 --height 25 --embosser tiger_pro
>>>>> myFile.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> This would send the document "myFile.txt" to a Tiger Pro embosser with 40
>>>>> cells across the page and 25 down.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this would be a good first goal of the Braille Blaster project as
>>>>> it would allow both the input classes and embosser driver classes to be
>>>>> written while creating something that can be used right away.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only downside to this idea that I can see is the fact that the UI
>>>>> will not be developed at the same time, because work on the UI related
>>>>> classes would stop while the quick-emboss feature is written. However, if
>>>>> someone continues to work on the UI classes while others work on the
>>>>> quick-emboss feature, I think that we can avoid the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> If this does not sound good as a first goal, I suggest that we should
>>>>> include this feature in the final release of Braille Blaster.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know what you think.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex Jurgensen,
>>>>> VoiceOver Trainer,
>>>>> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>>>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>>>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>>>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Alex Jurgensen,
>>> VoiceOver Trainer,
>>> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
>>>
>
>
Alex Jurgensen,
VoiceOver Trainer,
ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
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