[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: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:21:34 -0600
Rui,
I am working on setting up an SVN repository for liblouisxml on
code.google, which is more accessible than SourceForge. I'm also working
on packaging it with the GNU autotools. There is already a repository
for liblouis on code.google.
I think that the best approach to making GUIs for various platforms
would be to use a scripting language which produces accessible GUIs on
that platform and simply call the various programs that are part of the
liblouisxml package. That is what the Mac application and the Web
application do.
John
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:34:41AM +0000, Rui Batista wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I've looked at liblouisxml documentation and source code and seems very
> interessting too. I tested translating some text files to read on my
> braillenote and the results seem very good.
>
> Is there a more recent version then the one present on
> www.jjb-software.om? Svn repository or something?
>
> Regarding the gui application I will look at the mac one docs and source
> code and see if is there anyway we can do a port or something (might be
> a good thing for learning) but reading just the description I think is
> more or less what I wanted to have on linux.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rui Batista
> Qua, 2008-02-20 ??s 03:55 -0600, John J. Boyer escreveu:
> > 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
> >
> --
> 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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