liblouis braille translator and back-translator now available

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Sep 9 23:20:51 UTC 2005


John J. Boyer writes:
> Janina,
> 
> Oops! This is something I will have to work on. I've always just used it 
> in its own directory. Different distributions have difcerent conventions 
> about where libraries should go. The files needed are the translation 
> tables, and they can go anywhere. If they are not in your current 
> directory you can provide a pathname. If the tables include other tables 
> the included tables must be in the same directory as the first one. 
> 


Good to know, John, Especially the last part about being in the
same directory! <grin> Do you mean same directory as in they all should
be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, by way of example? 

> Hope this helps. More later.
> John
> 
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > You're not providing a 'make install.' Can you at least document which
> > files are made and where they should go, etc? Thanks.
> > 
> > John J. Boyer writes:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Some of you have heard of the liblouis braille translator and 
> > > back-translator library. You can now download the source from 
> > > www.chpi.org . It is on the downloads page, along with a lot of other 
> > > goodies. liblouis performs translation and back-translation of 
> > > contracted braille. It handles 16-bit Unicode natively, and is designed 
> > > to work with many languages. It is based on the translation routines in 
> > > BRLTTy, but has been much modified. There are Makefiles for both Linux 
> > > and Mac OS X. see the README file for details.
> > > 
> > > If anyone makes a Windows DLL for liblouis, I'll put that up too, with 
> > > credit, of course.
> > > 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

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