JAWS now uses LibLouis for its braille translation routines. It also supports
braille input, but I don't know whether this includes back translation on the
fly. Consult the documentation or someone more knowledgeable about that.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of
Congress
Washington, DC 20542 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kristina Kolley
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 5:14 PM
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: looking for some general information
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your reply. That all makes sense, and I will look into the program
you mentioned.
I tend to prefer standard typing on my computer, but there are situations where
brailleing would be handy, and I agree with you that Liblouis would benefit
greatly from a user input interface of some sort.
Regards,
Kristina
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On Jan 5, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Gregory Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:For a description of the software, to download it and links to
Kristina;
While you are right that liblouis does support UEB, and a host of other
languages as well, what liblouis is not is an end user tool. Rather it is a
programming library used by computer programmers to make tools and programs
that support Braille output.
While I have long called for the liblouis developers to give some
consideration to generating at the very least command line interfaces in
binary form for people, such as yourself, to use, such has never been done.
So unless you have fairly extensive computer programming experience you are
not likely to find that liblouis is of much use to you.
As for taking notes on a computer in Braille you might look into
BrailleZypher as an option it is a Braille editor that mimics a Perkins
Braille writer on a computer and saves Braille ready files (BRF)
Hope this helps.
Greg Kearney
On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Kristina Kolley <kristina.kolley@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,
I am a JAWS and iPhone user, and am new to this list. I should also mention
that I have not yet used Liblouis, but would like to give it a try soon.
First of all, does JAWS support Liblouis? I have not actually done any
braille input on my PC, so don't know how responsive I can expect JAWS to be
in terms of reading out, in terms of textual content, what has just been
brailled.
Another more immediate interest of mine is to learn UEB. I have MBraille on
my phone, but since that software does not yet have a UEB table, to my
knowledge, there is no practical way for me to begin implementing the code
into my everyday life, so I have not bothered learning the code. I thought
that, if nothing else, LibLouis would at least enable me to practice using
UEB on a regular basis.
I might also be interested in taking some course notes in braille on my PC.
Is this possible, or is Liblouis more for transcription purposes?
Sorry for all the basic questions.
Thank you,
Kristina
Sent from my iPhoneFor a description of the software, to download it and
links to
project pages go to http://liblouis.org
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://liblouis.org
