| liblouis 3.4.0 has been released |
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| The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| 3.4.0. The release is available for download at: |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
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| Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It |
| features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports |
| contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1]. |
| It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and |
| is used by screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca and JAWS. A companion |
| project liblouisutdml[2] deals with formatting of braille. |
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| Changes in this release |
| ======================= |
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| This release brings together a lot of work by lots of different |
| people. Probably the most prominent fix is the work on output |
| positions by Bue and Bert. NVDA should benefit from this. Then there |
| are new and massively improved tables like the Lithuanian 6-dot table |
| by Rimas or the improved back-translation for French by Michel and |
| André-Abush to name just a few. There are too many contributors to |
| name them here, thanks to them all. |
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| For a detailed list of all the changes refer to |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/14?closed=1 |
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| New features |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| - Add support for `inputPos' and `outputPos' checking in |
| `lou_checkyaml' thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen. See the manual for |
| details and examples. |
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| Bug fixes |
| ~~~~~~~~~ |
| - output positions (`outputPos') are now calculated based on input |
| positions (`inputPos') thanks to Bert Frees. This avoids a whole |
| class of bugs that previously plagued the output positions. This fix |
| also obviates the need for the `pass1Only' flag. See below for the |
| deprecation notice. |
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| Braille table improvements |
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| - Addition of Nemeth and Kangxi radical characters and other |
| improvements to Chinese braille (`zh-tw.ctb') thanks to Bo-Cheng |
| Jhan and 黃偉豪. |
| - Improvements to the Spanish chardefs table thanks to Luis Lorente |
| Barajas and Simon Aittamaa. |
| - Fixed a lowercase ó in Spanish first reported for NVDA thanks to |
| Sukil Etxenike. |
| - New Norwegian 6-dot display braille table for Braillo embossers |
| thanks to Lars Bjørndal |
| - Added a bunch of whitespace-like codepoints as spaces thanks to |
| Rimas Kudelis |
| - Added Lithuanian 6-dot table thanks to Rimas Kudelis. |
| - Addition of more characters to the French tables thanks to Samuel |
| Thibault |
| - Improvements to the Hungarian tables thanks to Attila Hammer |
| - Improvements to the Mongolian tables thanks to Tsengel Maidar |
| - Fix some math signs in Czech Braille (`cs-chardefs.cti'). Thanks to |
| Christian Herden of ViewPlus for reporting this. |
| - Updates to the SEB British Braille Tables thanks to Paul Wood |
| - Massive improvements to French back-translation thanks to Michel |
| Such and André-Abush Clause |
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| Other changes |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| Improved documentation |
| ---------------------- |
| - Bue Vester-Andersen added some notes about back-translation and |
| documented all possible values of the `mode' parameter. Also the |
| description of `decpoint' and `litdigit' was improved. |
| - The `match' opcode is now documented thanks to Mike Gray and |
| Christian Egli. |
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| lou_maketable |
| ------------- |
| Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements thanks to Bert Frees |
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| Code refactoring |
| ---------------- |
| Many global variables have been removed thanks to Bert Frees |
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| Code formatting |
| --------------- |
| Thanks to clang-format There is now a uniform coding style over the |
| whole code base |
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| Fix broken NMakefile |
| -------------------- |
| Thanks to Davy Kager building with nmake should work again |
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| Deprecation notice |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| The `pass1Only' flag has been deprecated. Its use should be avoided, |
| and it will be completely removed from the code in the next version of |
| Liblouis. When using the `pass1Only' flag in this release you will get |
| a warning. |
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| Backwards incompatible changes |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| None |
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| New, renamed or removed tables |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| New |
| --- |
| - no-no-braillo-047-01.dis |
| - lt-6dot.utb |
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| Renamed |
| ------- |
| None |
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| Removed |
| ------- |
| None |
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| Next release |
| ============ |
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| The next release will be published on March 5 2018 so please keep up |
| the excellent work and keep those improvements coming. |
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| Share and Enjoy! |
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| -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
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| Footnotes |
| ========= |
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| [1] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables |
| [2] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml |
