| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | liblouis 1.6.0 has been released |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 1.6.0. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | The release is available for download at: |
| 5 | |
| 6 | http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Introduction |
| 9 | ------------ |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It |
| Christian Egli | 183d9e7 | 2011-05-09 07:38:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 12 | features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports |
| 13 | contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1]. |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and |
| 15 | is used by screenreaders such as NVDA and Orca. A companion project |
| Christian Egli | 183d9e7 | 2011-05-09 07:38:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 16 | liblouisutdml/liblouisxml[2] deals with formatting of braille. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| 18 | Changes in this release |
| 19 | ----------------------- |
| 20 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | This release features support for Danish and Russian and updated |
| 22 | tables for French and Norwegian. The search path for tables can now be |
| 23 | specified using an environment variable. Finally there is the usual |
| 24 | assortment of bug fixes. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| 26 | New features: |
| 27 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | * exactdots opcode |
| 29 | The exactdots opcode can be used liblouisxml semantic-action files to |
| 30 | specify exact dot patterns, for example for mathematical codes. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | * LOUIS_TABLEPATH env variable |
| 33 | You can now specify where liblouis is to look for tables with the |
| 34 | LOUIS_TABLEPATH environment variable. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | * New Tables for Danish and Russian |
| 37 | There is now support for Danish and Russian. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
| 39 | Bug fixes: |
| 40 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | * Updated French and Norwegian tables |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
| Christian Egli | 66d7fc9 | 2009-03-09 13:22:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | * Use stdcall calling convention if building for Windows |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | |
| 45 | Share and Enjoy! |
| 46 | |
| 47 | -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | |
| 49 | Footnotes |
| 50 | --------- |
| 51 | |
| Christian Egli | 183d9e7 | 2011-05-09 07:38:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 52 | [1] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ |
| 53 | [2] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/ and |
| 54 | http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | |