[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.5.2 has been released

  • From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:00:29 +0100

liblouisutdml version can be checked with "file2brl --version". I don't think 
there's a way to find out which version of liblouis is used.


On 18 Dec 2012, at 18:42, Paul wood wrote:

> Thanks Vic!
> Does anyone know if there is a way through file2brl to check the version of 
> liblouis and liblouisudtml?
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
> On 18/12/2012 3:54 PM, Vic Beckley wrote:
>> Here you go.
>>  
>>  
>> From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Wood 
>> (Torch)
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:32 AM
>> To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.5.2 has been released
>>  
>> Vic,
>> look forward to the windows dlls when you have time!
>> Thanks
>> Paul
>> 
>> On 18/12/2012 11:09, Christian Egli wrote:
>>  
>> The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 2.5.2. 
>> 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. A companion project
>> liblouisutdml/liblouisxml[2] deals with formatting of braille.
>>  
>> Changes in this release
>> -----------------------
>>  
>> While initially planned as mainly a bug fix release this release
>> contains some notable new features: There is a new tool to trace which
>> rules have been used to perform a translation. Also along with other
>> new tables the long awaited table for UEB is finally here.
>>  
>> New Features 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>  
>> * New tool to trace rule application 
>>   There is a new tool (lou_trace) which helps to trace which rules
>>   have been used to perform a Braille translation. This is helpful
>>   for writing Braille tables. See the documentation[3] for more
>>   information.
>>  
>> * New Braille tables 
>>   - Inuktitut grade 1, thanks to Greg Kearney.
>>   - UEB grade 1 and 2, thanks to Joseph Lee.
>>   - Korean table thanks to Joseph Lee
>>   
>>  
>> Braille Table Improvements 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>  
>>   - da-gk-g2.ctb, fixes for transposed â, å, æ, ä, ø and ö,
>>     corrected/improved harness tests.
>>   - Corrections for en-GB-g2.ctb thanks to Paul Wood
>>   - Corrections to the Hungarian grade 1 table thanks to Hammer Attila
>>  
>> Bug Fixes 
>> ~~~~~~~~~
>>  
>>   - Update gnulib
>>   - Fix a bug in the correct opcode which causes sometimes random
>>     results when translating. Thanks to Bert Frees.
>>   - Fixes for compiler warnings.
>>   - Fix some Valgrind warnings about invalid reads
>>  
>> 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/ 
>> [3]  
>> http://liblouis.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/liblouis.html#lou_005ftrace
>>  
>>  
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