[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.4.1, R533 Released

  • From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:23:35 +0100

liblouis 2.4.1 has been released

The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 2.4.1. 
The release is available for download at:

    http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list

Introduction
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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 screen readers such as NVDA and Orca. A companion project
liblouisutdml/liblouisxml[2] deals with formatting of braille.

Changes in this release
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** New features
   - Czech hyphenation table thanks to Jan Hegr
   - Spanish grade 1 table provided by José Enrique Fernández del
     Campo and Juan Carlos Buño Suárez
   - New Tamil table thanks to Mesar Hameed

** Braille Table Improvements
   - Improvements to the Portuguese grade1 braille tables
   - Updates and additions to Icelandic 8-dot braille table.
   - Improvements to the uncontracted Spanish computer braille table.
   - Improvements to the Norwegian braille table thanks to David Hole.

Changes in the previous release (which was never properly announced)
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** New features
   - New Generic Farsi Grade 1 table: A new table for Generic Farsi
     Grade 1 braille has been provided by Mesar Hameed.
   - Emacs mode for editing Braille tables thanks to Christian Egli

** Braille Table Improvements
   - Improvements to the French comp6 and comp8 braille tables
   - Improvements to the Romanian braille table
   - Improvements to the Generic Arabic Grade 1 table
   - Improvements to the Czech tables thanks to Jan Halousek and to
     Jan Hegr

Share and Enjoy!

-- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers

Footnotes
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[1]  See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/
[2]  See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/ and
     http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ 

-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

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