And the Dutch spoken in Belgium is far from identical to that spoken in NL. And they also have different braille tables.
John G On 10/2/2009 3:16 PM, Neil Soiffer wrote:
Having a merged Dutch and Belgium tables seems wrong. They are
neighboring countries, but they speak different languages (Belgium has
two languages). Being a provincial American, that's pretty much the
limit of my "expertise" when it comes to the Netherlands and Belgium.
Neil
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, John J. Boyer <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
liblouis has a table called nl-be-g1.utb I assume the "be" stands for
Belgium. If anyone wants to work with this table I would prefer that
they contact me directly.
John
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:41:11PM -0700, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> The Netherlands ISO country code is "NL".* Is that what you
are after?
>
> *** Neil
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, John J. Boyer
> <[1]johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
>
> Neil,
>
> What are the country and language codes for Dutch? most of
the tables
> have names containing these codes. There might be something
for Dutch
> already.
> John
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:47:22AM -0700, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> > Christian,
> >
> > I've suggested to a colleague in the Netherlands that they
should try
> to get
> > the Dutch braille code (which appears to be more fluid/changing
than
> some)
> > implemented in liblouis. *Maybe the person you spoke to from the
> Netherlands
> > should get together with my colleague and do work together. *Do you
> have any
> > contact info?
> >
> > * * Neil
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Christian Egli
> <[2]christian.egli@xxxxxxxx <mailto:christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>>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
> > > --
> > > Christian Egli
> > > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> > > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z*rich, Switzerland
> > >
> > > For a description of the software and to download it go to
> > > [3]http://www.jjb-software.com
> > >
>
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