May be as a final note on this I should link to this page which looks
like it may have a number of useful links
https://accessiblemusicnotation.wordpress.com/working-documents/braille-music-tools/.
May be for those with some programming skills in Python scripting then
the Music21 toolkit looks interesting and is still currently being
developed http://web.mit.edu/music21/. Even if you don't have the Python
knowledge, then may be learning Python would be good as it is not that
difficult and would give you so much scope for developing tools to help
you get things done (Python is possibly where it all started for me,
only possibly as I had previously done a bit of VisualBasic at school,
but Python was when I started really doing useful stuff with programming).
Michael Whapples
On 17/08/2016 00:01, Michael Whapples (Redacted sender mwhapples for
DMARC) wrote:
If one does not want to go into that then there appears to be a web frontend at http://musicxml2braille.appspot.com/ which seems perfectly accessible.
Also is FreeDots in Python as the downloads include Jar files?
My point though really was there may be open source tools out there if searched for, FreeDots is just an example but not necessarily the only one. OpenSource might be the best choice if the commercial offerings are too much. Due to the specialist nature of this any commercial offering is likely to be expensive.
NOTE: Both FreeDots and musicxml2braille I found very quickly by doing a google search, I don't even think I went to the second page of results to find them. Other projects may come up if one were to do other searches and look further in the results. However as I do not use Braille music I really am not the person to do the searching and evaluating what is the best option.
Michael Whapples
On 16/08/2016 23:09, prayner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I haven't used the backend of freedots much but the musicxml.py module
certainly allows me to read musicxml scores. and there is a braille
music generator in freedots. It's certainly completely accessible
since it's python hence command-line.
cheers
Peter
Jordy Deweer writes:
Hello everybody,
Is there a way to translate music into braille with liblouis? Or is there a
programme that supports that?
Thanks for the answers.
Regards, Jordy.
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://liblouis.org
