[brailleblaster] Fwd: Planning ahead on BB development
- From: François Ouellette <francois.ouellette01@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:26:26 -0400
I just looked at the POI documentation and they only have exporting
classes for docx documents. Besides, it is an orphan project at the
moment. Another simpler option would be to export as RTF which can
retain some of the formatting set in the UTDML file. There is a API
called jrtf on code.google that's available under a BSD license.
François.
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From: John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: Planning ahead on BB development
To: Francois <francois.ouellette01@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Francois,
That will be another jar file for dist/lib Please give the direct link
for downloading it. We can add other formats later as the need arises.
I have put a message on the liblouis list about grouping tables
according to language and braille code.
I've also sent a message to the libxml2 list asking how to send error
messages to a user function.
Incidentally, I think it would be better if this correspondence were on
the BrailleBlaster list so the rest of the team would feel that they
were in on the action and could contribute ideas.
Thanks,
John
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:42:33PM -0400, Francois wrote:
> Hi again John, forgot to mention, we can use Apache POI to handle
> Microsoft documents from BB.
>
> François.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM, John J. Boyer
> <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Francois,
> >
> > A while ago I sent a message on the settings dialog. It would be nice to
> > have some work on that. It needs polishing, and there should be a
> > checkbox to chose whether or not to add UTDML when translating. The
> > default should be yes, and the -utd command-line option should be
> > removed. There should be some indication that there will be a drop-down
> > list for chosing the language of print input and another for chosing the
> > braille code within this language. However, this is a rather large
> > project in itself. For now just an indication that these two lists will
> > be present will let users know that this is a future development. There
> > is interest in a similar feature on the liblouis list.
> >
> > If you would rather work on exporters I think people would like MSWord
> > and also plain text. Plain text should be easy, since it would consist
> > simply of writing the contents of text nodes to a file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:26:50AM -0400, Francois wrote:
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> With the next push slated for later today the basic GUI features
> >> should be enough to have the editing functions added in. So what would
> >> be the next thing to address? You mentioned exporting, which format
> >> would be the first to support?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> François.
> >
> > --
> > 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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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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