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Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]1liblouis 2.6.1 has been released
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]2
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]3The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]42.6.1 The release is available for download at:
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]5
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]6 https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]7
8Introduction
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11Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It
Christian Egli183d9e72011-05-09 07:38:36 +0000[diff] [blame]12features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports
13contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1].
Christian Egli971d4e82009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]14It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and
15is used by screenreaders such as NVDA and Orca. A companion project
Christian Egli983d5232014-05-20 09:19:50 +0200[diff] [blame]16liblouisutdml[2] deals with formatting of braille.
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]17
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]18Next release
19============
20
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]21The next release will be published on March 2nd 2015 so please keep
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]22those improvements coming.
23
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]24Changes in this release
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Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]27This release focuses on table and documentation improvements. The
28documentation has been restructured to cater to people starting with
29writing Braille tables. End users will see improvements to Braille for
30Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Irish and UK English.
Christian Eglieb7178f2012-09-10 10:08:16 +0000[diff] [blame]31
Christian Egli7617fa92014-03-03 11:15:35 +0000[diff] [blame]32New features
33~~~~~~~~~~~~
Christian Eglieb7178f2012-09-10 10:08:16 +0000[diff] [blame]34
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]35New Braille tables
36------------------
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]37
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]38- New grade 1 and grade 2 Gaeilge tables implementing the 2014 UIB
39 standard. Including tests, thanks to Ronan McGuirk, Mesar Hameed.
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]40
Christian Egli7617fa92014-03-03 11:15:35 +0000[diff] [blame]41
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]42Braille table improvements
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44
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame^]45- Updates and correction to Hungarian braille tables, thanks to Hammer
46 Attila.
47- Correction to English UK grade 2 braille tables and new tests,
48 thanks to Paul Wood, Mesar Hameed
49- Vastly improved Danish tables thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen
50 - back-translation, both in 6 dots grade 2 and 8 dots grade 2.
51 - Better handling of dash, slash, and other punctuation within words
52 in 8 dots grade 2.
53- New table for Dutch (Netherlands) thanks to Henri Apperloo from CBB
54
55
56Bug fixes
57~~~~~~~~~
58
59- fix a compiler warning in the logging code. Thanks Peter Lundblad
60 for reporting it and Michael Whapples for fixing the problem.
61
62
63Documentation updates
64~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
65
66- The documentation has been restructured to be more beginner friendly
67 and a short introduction to translation table writing has been
68 added. Thanks to Joseph Lee and Christian Egli
69
70
71Other changes
72~~~~~~~~~~~~~
73
74- When compiling with mingw or cygwin resulting dll is liblouis.dll.
75- runHarness.py: add new output format, compact output mode suitable
76 for grepping.
77
78
79Backwards incompatible changes
80~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
81
82- Deleted ga.ctb now superseded by ga-g1.utb and ga.g2.ctb.
83- Nl-Nl-g1.utb has been removed. It is superseded by nl-NL-g1.ctb.
84- nl-be-g1.utb has been removed. It is superseded by nl-BE-g1.ctb.
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86Share and Enjoy!
87
88-- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers
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90Footnotes
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Christian Egli971d4e82009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]92
Christian Egli983d5232014-05-20 09:19:50 +0200[diff] [blame]93[1] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables
94[2] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/
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