[brailleblaster] Re: Fwd: Planning ahead on BB development
- From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:04:18 -0700
Hi John,
RTFD can contain pictures. This seems to be a superset of RTF as far as I
understand it.
Regards,
Alex,
Alex Jurgensen,
Community Coordinator,
The Camp Bowen Society for the Visually Impaired,
Explore Camp Bowen online at: http://www.campbowen.ca/
Phone: 778-908-0521
E-mail: ASquared21@xxxxxxxxx
On 2012-07-23, at 3:27 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Doesn't the StyledText class have an embedded RTF class? Can RTF handle
> graphics or link to them? If it can, we might setle for RTF rather than
> docx. Bookshare requires RTF for all submissions. Now iremember dealing
> with RTFs that contained pictgures.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Francois wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
> --
> 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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