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 ------------ 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 ----------------------- ** 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 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 --------- [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 ----- Jetzt kostenlos eidgenoessische und kantonale Abstimmungsunterlagen aus 17 Kantonen zum Hoeren auf CD abonnieren: medienverlag@xxxxxx For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com