I am planning on using BrailleZephyr as the editor for my MacOS GUI. Right now
when you run Louis (the GUI) it translates and then opens the resulting
translation in TextExit with a Braille font. TextEdit and similar editor are
not, however, really useful for correcting the BRF file output as they do no
honour cells per line and lines per page settings nor do they provide a means
of 6/8 key corded editing.
My use of TextEdit was intended as a temporary measure until I had access to a
proper BRF editor such as BrailleZephyr.
Commonwealth Braille & Talking Book Cooperative
Greg Kearney, General Manager
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On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:19 AM, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
BrailleZephyr will provide formatting, pagination, etc. Development will
be in two stages. The first will emulate a Perkins Brailler. The second
will add formatting, etc. Wto-stage development divides the task into
manageable pieces.
John
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:55:45AM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
Strictly speaking a BRF editor would probably not do - hard line breaks, no
way to repaginate, static formatting, etc. - but perhaps something akin to a
BRF editor but more like a simple word processor/text editor. I think that
is what some were aiming for originally with BrailleBlaster which has turned
into something much more than that.
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Who is interested in working on a
Windows GUI for liblouisutdml?
Well then, would there be a case for it in the BRF editor which is being
developed?
A BRF would be opened with "Open" and XML could be imported, translation
being part of the import process.
It would be little effort to do this.
In the past I did nearly write a GUI for LibLouisUTDML due to the MSVC build
not compiling the tools and so there being a lack of tools when building
with MSVC. At that time I was using .NET a lot and so probably would have
used WPF for it. However that would be windows only.
As I now have mingw-w64 working on my Linux system, I have windows builds
with the command line tools and so I do not have the need now. I am not
certain whether I have the time to create such a tool at the moment.
Michael Whapples
On 20/07/2015 11:57, Keith Creasy wrote:
One could make a good argument for something that does allow text editing
after the transformation of the XML. It wouldn't be the kind of tool we are
trying to create in BrailleBlaster but would rather be an editor similar to
the commercial transcription tools that are out there now - really a
glorified braille text editor.
I don't believe it would be all that difficult and would probably be very
useful to individuals and anyone who wasn't trying to meet the exacting
standards of professionally produced braille or the requirements of BANA.
K
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
J. Boyer
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 6:51 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Who is interested in working on a Windows
GUI for liblouisutdml?
Greg has already produced one for MacOS. That can provide a starting poin
for a Windows GUI. It would make full translation and formatting
capabilities available to ordinary users. Plus math and translation of both
text and xml.
This would not be a replacement for BrailleBlaster. It would not have
editing capabilities.
Thanks,
John
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Madison, Wisconsin USA
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