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

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:47:38 -0600

The Java bindings have a version method which will return the versions 
of both libraries. It uses the liblouisutdml function lbu_version. 

John

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:00:29PM +0100, Bert Frees wrote:
> 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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