[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis 2.5.2 has been released
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:00:12 +0800
Thank for this just a note there is no such thing as Inuit grade 2 braille.
Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
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On 18/12/2012, at 7:09 PM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx> 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
>
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
> -----
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> http://www.sbs.ch/schenken .
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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