| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | liblouis 1.5.2 has been released |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 1.5.2. |
| 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 | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 12 | features support for computer, literary and math braille[1], supports |
| 13 | contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[2]. |
| 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 |
| 16 | liblouisxml[3] deals with formatting of braille. |
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| 18 | Changes in this release |
| 19 | ----------------------- |
| 20 | |
| 21 | This is a big release for liblouis. It's the first time that it is |
| 22 | done from the Google code page. A number of people have contributed, |
| 23 | namely John Boyer (table debugger, bug fixes), Eitan Isaacson (Python |
| 24 | bindings), James Teh (Python bindings, bug fixes), Christian Egli |
| 25 | (documentation) and Michel Such (table for French grade 2). |
| 26 | |
| 27 | New features: |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * Python bindings |
| 30 | The liblouis library can now be used from Python. For more info |
| 31 | consult the README file in the python directory. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * Table debugger |
| 34 | liblouis now comes with a debugger that can help to find problems with |
| 35 | translation tables. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * French table for grade 2 |
| 38 | There is now a translation table for French grade 2. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * pass1Only mode bit |
| 41 | The new pass1Only mode bit will help developers of screen readers as |
| 42 | the cursor will stay where it is expected to. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Bug fixes: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Fix the inpos array values for the case where a rule has an output |
| 47 | length which is larger than its input length. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * fixed multi-word phrases |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * fixed bug in character display |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * fixed bug in findOpcodeName |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * lou_version now returns the correct liblouis version |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Share and Enjoy! |
| 58 | |
| 59 | -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
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| 61 | Footnotes |
| 62 | --------- |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [1] Liblouis supports Nemeth Code, with Marburg and UK maths on the way |
| 65 | [2] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ |
| 66 | [3] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ |
| 67 | |