getting started with Liblouis

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Do you have the latest liblouis release? It came out about a week ago. I can forward the release announcement. It includes all URLs.

John

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 02:57:03PM +0100, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hi Al and All,
> 
> I have tried to build liblouisxml pulled from git master (Debian source files).
> 
> Bad news: build failed on Slint64-14.2.1, some of the components being too old.
> 
> Good news: build succeeded on Slackware64-15.0 (building box for the upcoming
> slint64-15.0), so a package for Slint64-15.0 is ready.
> 
> Unfortunately it can't be used on Slint64-14.2.1 as the programs lbx_devonly
> and, more importantly xml2brl can't run because there the glibc version is not
> the same as on 15.0
> 
> So, please be patient: this stuff (included all dependencies) will be shipped in
> Slint 64-15.0.
> 
> Thanks to John for liblouisxml and to Samuel to have maintained it during the
> last 11 years.
> 
> Cheers,
> Didier
> --
> Didier Spaier
> Slint maintainer
> 
> Le 16/03/2022 à 20:40, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> > Hi, Didier.  Thanks for that information.  Yes, that seems to be what I need, if
> > possible along with antiword and a couple of items the README mentions that I
> > forget.  If those other items are more than you want to put in Slint, then I
> > presume I'll get them by way of the other README information.
> > 
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/16/22 13:37, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >> Hi Al,
> >>
> >> It appears that liblouis xml ins maintained for Debian by Samuel Thibault so
> >> Debian based distributions get it too.
> >>
> >> I will build a Slint package for Slint using the same source files if you need
> >> that.
> >>
> >> But please look first at this README:
> >> https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/liblouisxml/-/blob/master/README
> >>
> >> and confirm or infirm that it is what you are looking for.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Didier
> >> -- 
> >> Didier Spaier
> >> Slint maintainer.
> >>
> >> Le 16/03/2022 à 18:03, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> >>> Thanks, Jeff.  I'm using Slint.  I didn't see either of the programs you
> >>> mention.  Maybe there's something else.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best!
> >>>
> >>> Al
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 3/16/22 03:30, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm trying to find out how to use Liblouis to translate documents from print
> >>>>> to Braille.  Specifically, my wife would like me to find out how to translate
> >>>>> Russian documents into Braille ones.  At the moment, though, I haven't yet
> >>>>> learned a command to run for translating anything:  the Liblouis
> >>>>> documentation looks to have a lot of useful material, but I could find
> >>>>> nothing about running a command, with whatever arguments and options I might
> >>>>> need, to create a Braille output file from a print input file.
> >>>> In Debian, I see liblouis-bin and liblouisxml-bin packages which can probably
> >>>> help you.  Other distributions probably have something similar.
> >>>>
> >>>>> I read about a command called file2brl, apparently part of a program called
> >>>>> Liblouisutdml, but that program's not on my system even though Liblouis
> >>>>> itself is.
> >>>> Apparently, UTDML is unified tactile document markup language, whcih is
> >>>> presumably used for maps, diagrams, etc.  This is probably not what you need.
> >>>>
> >>>> HTH,
> >>>> Geoff.
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