[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Report from Daisy2009
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:37:00 -0500
Christian,
Lots of good news. liblouisxml will eventually support multi-volume
books. In fact, that was one of the motivations behind style nesting. I
want it to support all the features of Daisy xml.
There can't be any harm in uploading the slides and paper to the
googlecode site. It would probably increase interest in liblouis among
people who just browse to the site.
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:10:05PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> 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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>
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