liblouis 2.3.0 has been released The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 2.3.0. The release is available for download at: http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list Introduction ------------ Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1]. It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and is used by screenreaders such as NVDA and Orca. Changes in this release ----------------------- This release contains support for many more languages than before (Swedish, Kurdish, Ethiopian, Serbian). The search path for tables is now a list of paths. Finally there is the usual assortment of bug fixes. New features: - Multiple table search path The environment variable LOUIS_TABLEPATH can now contain a list of paths (separated by commas) where liblouis should look for tables. This allows the user to keep local tables. - New --quiet option for lou_checktable lou_checktable writes to stderr even in the case of success. This can now be suppressed with the new option --quiet. - New Swedish table A new table for Swedish braille has been provided by Samuel Thibault. - New table for Sorani (Kurdish) A new table for Sorani (Kurdish) Braille has been donated by Peter Engström from Index Braille - New table for Ethiopian A new table for Ethiopian Braille has been donated by Peter Engström from Index Braille - New table for Serbian A new table for Serbian Braille has been donated by Peter Engström from Index Braille Improved the documentation: The deprecated opcodes have been moved to a separate section Bug fixes: Fixed a long standing bug with an infinite loop in the table compiler Braille Table Improvements: - Improvements to the Chinese braille table - Improvements to the Flemish Braille Math Code tables - Improvements to the Dutch Braille tables - Improvements to the Spanish Braille tables. - Fixes for the uncontracted French 6 and 8 dot tables - Improved support for Italian 8 dot - Improvements to the Generic Arabic Grade 1 table Share and Enjoy! -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers Footnotes --------- [1] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland ----- Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: Tag der offenen Tuer am 25. Juni 2011 von 9 bis 16 Uhr. Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com