[liblouis-liblouisxml] Report from Daisy2009
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:10:05 +0200
Hi all
As you might know I was at the Daisy2009 conference and gave a talk on
liblouis. If there is any demand I can upload the slides and the paper
to the Google code site. There was good feedback and quite a few people
approached me afterwards and wanted to know more. It appears that
liblouis is not well known in the Daisy circles despite the fact that
quite a few of the member organization produce Braille.
The Norwegians for example were not aware that liblouis has good support
for their language. I pointed them to Lars as an excellent contact :-).
Also a person from the Netherlands approached me and told me that he had
implemented his own Braille translation program not too long ago and
would love to drop it if he could use liblouis instead. He asked me if
liblouisxml had support for multi-volumes, where you could split the
output into multiple volumes, each containing a toc.
Somebody from the UK asked how good the support for UK English was and
if there was a possibility to put footnotes either at the end of the
page, or at the end of the chapter or at the end of the document.
I also talked with some of the Daisy Pipeline developers about
integrating liblouis with the Daisy Pipeline. This would of course be a
tremendous boost for liblouis visibility. I have some ideas how a simple
integration could look like (basically just invoke xml2brl via command
line) and will detail them in another mail.
Finally I talked to a guy that implemented a plugin for OpenOffice. He
was mentioning that there is apparently a EU project to add Braille
output to OpenOffice and that it was quite likely that liblouis was
going to be used for that.
I would say there are exiting times ahead!
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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