[brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster New Design Status
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:22:58 -0500
I'm currently working on the <brf/> bug. Please give me a list of
liblouisutdml bugs.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:54:23AM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> All.
>
> It looks doubtful that we are going to be ready for a beta of BBND next week.
> Here are the things that must be done, at least from my perspective, before
> we can even think of a beta:
>
> 1. We still have some markup and indexing bugs in LibLouisUTDML. The one main
> one I know about involves a <br/> element in the middle of block text such as
> a heading.
> 2. Configuration and semantic action dialogs still are not really ready. We
> need user changes to be saved in the user profile app data area and we need
> tighter control over available options rather than a completely free-form
> entry.
> 3. We need to test it with more DTBook and NIMAS files and try to overcome
> XML parsing and other issues, even if they are the result of bad markup.
> 4. Working files should be put in the user profile temp file space when we
> are working with an archive (zip) and just a temporary working file in the
> source directory when working with just an XML file. The latter is unless
> everyone else thinks we should copy the entire directory to the temp
> directory. Many of these XML files depend on local (System) DTD's, style
> sheets, and images that we don't necessarily want to copy but are required
> for them to parse properly.
> 5. We need a "refresh" command and menu item so that when configuraiton and
> semantic action changes are made the UI can be updated to reflect those
> changes.
> 6. Braille embossing preview needs to be finished and tested.
>
>
> Developers at APH are meeting this morning so any feedback, suggestions, or
> comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Keith
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
> KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> Phone: 502.895.2405
> Skype: keith537
>
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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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