[brailleblaster] Re: Fwd: Planning ahead on BB development
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:17:17 -0400
Sorry for the delay in pushing changes, I am fine-tuning the
Open/Import/Save/SaveAs/Close/New operations, making sure everything
works as expected. Still a few loose ends to tie up.
Regards,
François in tropical Toronto.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> RTFD can contain pictures. This seems to be a superset of RTF as far as I
> understand it.
>
> Regards,
> Alex,
>
>
> Alex Jurgensen,
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>
> 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.
>
>
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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
>
>
>
> --
>
> 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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