[liblouis-liblouisxml] [liblouis] r1115 committed - Upgrade release announcement
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- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:15:48 +0000
Revision: 1115
Author: christian.egli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon Mar 3 11:15:35 2014 UTC
Log: Upgrade release announcement
http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/source/detail?r=1115
Modified:
/trunk/ANNOUNCEMENT
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--- /trunk/ANNOUNCEMENT Mon Sep 10 10:08:16 2012 UTC
+++ /trunk/ANNOUNCEMENT Mon Mar 3 11:15:35 2014 UTC
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-liblouis 2.5.0 has been released
+liblouis 2.5.4 has been released
-The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
2.5.0.
+The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
2.5.4.
The release is available for download at:
- http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list
+ http://liblouis.github.io/downloads/
Introduction
------------
@@ -18,97 +18,102 @@
Changes in this release
-----------------------
-This release contains a tremendous amount of work many developers.
-Many long standing bugs have been fixed. The tables can finally be in
-UTF-8. A grand table cleanup removed duplication from the tables.
-There are now two extensive test frameworks for table writers. A
-number of new tables have been contributed on top of the usual
-assortment of table improvements. Thanks to all of this liblouis has
-already seen quite a bit of uptake in a number of places, notably the
-new DAISY pipeline will ship with this release of liblouis.
+ This release contains nine months worth of braille table improvements
+ for example for UEB, en-us, Nemeth, Bulgarian, Slovenian and many
+ more. Also there are fixes to the core for table path resolving and
+ back-translation.
+
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ - Added function lou_registerTableResolver for plugging in a table
+ resolver callback from your host language.
+
+
+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+ - Fixed ENDSEGMENT indicator in computer Braille thanks to John Boyer.
+ - Emphasized words should now be contracted consistently thanks to
+ John Boyer.
+ - Fixed several problems with back-translation. A slash within a
+ number and strings such as 5-inch-diameter and 25-year-old-man
+ should now back-translate correctly. Thanks to John Boyer.
+ - Fixed a problem with syllable opcode. Thanks to John Boyer.
+ - Fix warnings with gcc 4.8.2. Thanks to Peter Lundblad.
+ - When a table is specified with an absolute or relative path, the
+ "includes" in that table will now work as expected, meaning files in
+ the same directory will be found.
+
+
+Braille Table Improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ - fr-bfu-comp8.utb: corrections, zero was wrongly displayed in some
+ instances.
+ - en-us-g2.ctb, en-ueb-g2.ctb: Fixes for that's, can't and s' thanks
+ to Ken Perry.
+ - en-us-g2.ctb: Fix for backtranslation of things like
+ [http://address.com], words including after, capsigns. thanks to Ken
+ Perry.
+ - Further corrections and testcases to the Hungarian tables thanks to
+ Hammer Attila
+ - Fixed letter sign in en-us and en-ueb tables. Thanks to John Boyer
+ and Ken Perry.
+ - UEB Fixes thanks to Mesar Hameed, Ken Perry and Joseph Lee:
+ - chardefs - correct title and fixed a long standing bug where dots
+ 46 was inserted between letters (especialy for web addresses).
+ - Fix problem with at sign.
+ - Removed section of accented letters, that were left behind from US
+ table.
+ - Added todo for accents, to define according to the formal docs.
+ - Corrected mathematical forall symbol.
+ - Modified emphasis dot combinations to follow UEB standard.
+ - Corrected the display of period when used as a midword.
+ - Ensure 'inin' is correctly backtranslated in words such as
+ asinine, feminine and others.
+ - Bulgarian bg.ctb: updated to meet modern standards (added latin
+ letters, corrected punctuation/mathematical symbols, misc typos).
+ Thanks to Rumiana Kamenska
+ - en-gb-g1.utb: Fixes thanks to Paul Wood
+ - Fix for the lich sign in the German tables. Thanks to Halim Sahin.
+ - Nemeth improvements thanks to John Boyer.
+ - Spaces in nemethdefs.cti were changed to unbreakable spaces. This
+ was done so that nemeth expressions would not be broken between
+ lines.
+ - The number sign is now inserted between the minus sign and the
+ number at the beginning of an expression. Some problems with pass2
+ opcodes have also been corrected.
+ - The Esperanto table has additional punctuation characters and a test
+ harness. Thanks to Aaron Cannon.
+ - Added missing symbols to the US English BRF display table. Thanks to
+ Aaron Cannon.
+ - Improvements to the Slovenian table and a new Slovenian eight dot
+ computer table provided by Jožef Gregorc.
+ - Fixes to the Norwegian tables thanks to Lars Bjørndal
+ - Fixes for less than / greater than.
+ - Add entries for URLs, domains and file names.
+ - Added ne.utb, an alternative Nepali braille table. One of ne.utb or
+ ne.ctb will be removed/merged in a future version. Keeping both for
+ the time being so that users can test and give feedback on which is
+ most correct. Thanks to Him Prasad Gautam, and Mesar Hameed
+
+
+Backwards incompatible changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-NOTE: If you have private tables you might want to migrate them to
-utf-8. To do this just use iconv as follows:
+ - Delete the table chardefs-ueb.cti as these rules are now provided by
+ en-ueb-chardefs.uti
- $ iconv -f latin-1 -t utf-8 <input >output
-New features
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* New Braille tables
- - Estonian grade 0, thanks to Jürgen Dengo.
- - Portuguese 8 dot Computer braille, Thanks to Rui Fontes
-* UTF-8 support in tables
- Braille tables can now contain UTF-8 in the opcode arguments.
-* Improvements to the python bindings
- All constants defined in liblouis.h are now exposed in the bindings.
-* Add a doctest infrastructure
- These tests are based on the Python doctest framework and are only
- run if there is a Python interpreter on the system
-* Add a test harness
- This test infrastructure allows the user to do table tests in a
- simple and concise syntax. These tests are based on the Python
- nose testing framework and are only run if either Python 2.x or
- 3.x with the related nose python module is installed on the
- system. See the documentation for more information. Thanks to
- Mesar Hameed.
-* Add a test harness generator
- A harness generator that uses simple text files with a little
- formatting to help to generate the json harness files. The purpose
- of this tool is to make it much easier and faster to add checks
- for a given table. You are expected to read the generated harness
- file and make necessary changes, the tool only helps you to get
- the tests into the harness format, not check their validity.
-* Support for Python 3 in the Python bindings
- The Python bindings now work for both Python 2 and Python 3.
- Thanks to Michael Whapples.
-
-Improved C-based test framework
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Improved the test framework to be able to test translations
- involving Unicode.
- - Added numerous tests, e.g. for lowercase and Unicode, for the
- input position, for repeated, etc.
+Invisible changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Improved the documentation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Document the test harness (json format, fields, flags).
- - Document the use of Valgrind to find memory leaks
- - Improve the documentation on the display opcode
+ - Refactoring in compileTranslationTable.c: separated more clearly the
+ compilation from the table resolving, removed duplicate code, etc.
-Bug fixes
-~~~~~~~~~~
- - lou_allround and lou_translate now properly handle Unicode
- characters
- - Fix some issues reported by Valgrind
- - Fix inputPos for situation where context and multipass opcodes
- are involved
- - Fixed a number of bugs with the letter, uppercase and lowercase
- opcodes when dealing with Unicode
- - Fixed a couple of bugs with hyphenation (documentation, Python
- bindings and a number of buffer overruns in the C library).
- Thanks Milan Zamazal <pdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> for reporting this.
- - Fix a bug in the $a. matcher in the multipass rules where only 32
- chars were matched. It now matches 0xffff chars.
- - Fix a bug reported by James Teh related to pass1Only
-Braille Table Improvements
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - all table files have consistent encoding, UTF-8.
- - The grand table cleanup: Reorganize the tables to remove
- duplication. Move common parts such as Latin letter, eight and
- six dot digit definitions to separate files which are then
- included. This should ease table maintenance. Thanks to Mesar Hameed.
- - Fixes to de-de-comp8.ctb thanks to Aliminator83@xxxxxxxxx
- - hu1.ctb renamed to hu-hu-g1.ctb
- - hu.ctb renamed to hu-hu-comp8.ctb
- - eo.ctb renamed to eo-g1.ctb
- - Fixes to eo-g1.ctb thanks to Aaron Cannon
<cannona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- - hu-hu-g1.ctb: improvements and extensive test harness, with
- working back-translation, Thanks to Hammer Attila
- - Fixes to fr-bfu-comp6.utb and fr-bfu-comp8.utb thanks to Michel
- Such <michel.such@xxxxxxx>
- - Fixes to no-no-g3.ctb thanks to Lars Bjørndal
- <lars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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