[brailleblaster] Re: A Milestone Idea
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:41:13 -0600
Alex,
It would be useful to have a launch file. Is this an xml file? If so,
you could prepare it and send it as an attachment.
John
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:10:42PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi JOhn,
>
> In order to create a *.app bundle on the Mac Eclipse requires a valid launch
> file. has someone prepared one already or should I prepare one?
>
> 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
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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