[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: introduction, liblouis bindings for other languages and possible linux/multi-OS grafical application
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:55:33 -0600
Rui,
As you mention, there are already Python bindings for Orca. I would like
to hear from the Orca people how general they are. Java bindings would
be a very nice thing to have. You might like to look at liblouisxml as
well as liblouis. While liblouis does braille translation and
back-translation, liblouisxml does a complete job of braille
transcription, including formatting into paragraphs, headers, etc,
insertion of page numbers, translation of math, and much more.
Cross-platform applications would be nice, but I understand that it is
hard to make them accessible. There is documntation on the Mac
application, called louis, at a link on http://www.jjb-software.com .
There is also an experimental Web application, which I will describe in
another message.
Thanks,
John
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:54:55AM +0000, Rui Batista wrote:
> Hi Mr. John and all,
>
> I'm Rui Batista, a blind Portuguese computer engenering student at
> Instituto Superior T??cnico here in Lisbon, Portugal. I heard about
> liblouis, and reading the documentation, using liblouis with the test
> tools and looking a bit at the source code I became very excited about
> this software. I've always missed a good software to work with braille
> on the computer (the good ones aren't sould here in portugal and even
> are not translated/adapted to portuguese) and I would like to help
> someway with liblouis development.
>
> I'm skilled in c, python and java, and can use other programming
> languages too (PHP, scheme, C++, and some 8086 ASM sometimes). I never
> did serious development (at least out of the univercity), just did some
> spuradical contributions to NVDA and some other none accessibility
> related stuff. I would like to get working on something useful and
> interessting, and liblouis seems really fascinating.
>
> I had some ideas for what I would like or could be helping with libouis:
>
> Bindings for other languages:
> E think python/java bindings will be useful. Regarding python, I do know
> there are some orca specific bindings but they use c compiled extensions
> and I don't really know if porting to other platforms would be easy. I'm
> more inclined for a ctypes like aprotch... And actually I prefere a more
> OOP like interface, not just wrapping the c functions. What do you think
> about this?
> Regarding java I think bindings will be possible and possibly easy to
> implement but I'm not aquinted with java/c mechanisms yet.
>
> Grafical software using liblouis:
> I do know there is a MAC application using liblouis to translate and
> backtranslate braille, but because I don't have access to a MAC based
> computer I can't test it. Can you give me more information about this
> application, what it does, etc.? I wanted some kind of cross platform
> application (ok, I always wanted many things in life lol), maby java
> with swt (seems the best accessible java thing outthere), or something
> else. I'm running linux allmost full time and a gtk (pygtk or plain gtk
> using c) seems interessting too, but the cross platform thing is
> compromised. What do you think about this?
>
> I'm sorry for such a long message, and possible some strange sounding
> english (you know that's not my first language...)...
>
> Best Regards
> --
> Rui Batista
> e-mail: ruiandrebatista (at) gmail (dot) com
> msn/wlm: ruiandrebatista (at) hotmail (dot) com
> weblog pessoal: http://outputstream.wordpress.com
>
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
--
John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
JJB Software, Inc.
http://www.jjb-software.com
Madison, WI USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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