| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | liblouis 2.6.2 has been released |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Christian Egli | 554b70f | 2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 4 | 2.6.2 The release is available for download at: |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Christian Egli | 554b70f | 2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| 8 | Introduction |
| Christian Egli | 554b70f | 2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | ============ |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | 983d523 | 2014-05-20 09:19:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | liblouisutdml[2] deals with formatting of braille. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| 18 | Changes in this release |
| Christian Egli | 554b70f | 2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | ======================= |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 21 | This release, which was mostly pushed out the door by Bert and Mesar, |
| 22 | fixes a long standing emphasis bug, adds more functionality to the |
| 23 | harness test suite and improves, as usual, on Braille tables. Notably |
| 24 | there is a brand new finish table backed by Celia. |
| Christian Egli | eb7178f | 2012-09-10 10:08:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| Christian Egli | 7617fa9 | 2014-03-03 11:15:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | New features |
| 27 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| Christian Egli | eb7178f | 2012-09-10 10:08:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 29 | - Harness tests now can test for typeform differences. |
| Christian Egli | 2d6ae7e | 2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| 31 | Bug fixes |
| 32 | ~~~~~~~~~ |
| 33 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 34 | - Fix for emphasis bug, thanks to Michael Gray |
| Christian Egli | 2d6ae7e | 2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 36 | Braille table improvements |
| 37 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| Christian Egli | 2d6ae7e | 2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 39 | - Correction to comments in Norwegian generic tables, thanks to Lars |
| 40 | Bjørndal |
| 41 | - Corrections to dot patterns in no-no-g0.utb thanks to Lars Bjørndal |
| 42 | - Corrections and additional test cases for Hungarian grade 1, thanks |
| 43 | to Hammer Attila. |
| 44 | - New 6-dot table for Finnish thanks to Jukka Eerikäinen from Celia. |
| 45 | The existing tables for Finnish were 8-dot, but there is an official |
| 46 | specification only for 6-dot braille in Finnish. |
| Christian Egli | 2d6ae7e | 2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 48 | Next release |
| 49 | ============ |
| Christian Egli | 2d6ae7e | 2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | |
| Christian Egli | b4b192b | 2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 51 | The next release will be published on June 1st 2015 so please keep |
| 52 | those improvements coming. |
| Christian Egli | 15c482e | 2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | |
| 54 | Share and Enjoy! |
| 55 | |
| 56 | -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | |
| 58 | Footnotes |
| Christian Egli | 554b70f | 2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | ========= |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | |
| Christian Egli | 983d523 | 2014-05-20 09:19:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | [1] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables |
| 62 | [2] See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/ |
| Christian Egli | 971d4e8 | 2009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |