| liblouis 3.2.0 has been released |
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| The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| 3.2.0. 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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| Aside from the usual improvements to Braille tables this release |
| focuses on improving the internal infrastructure. Numerous bugs have |
| been fixed, the CI infrastructure also checks mingw builds now and |
| MSVC compatibility has been massively improved. For a detailed list of |
| all the changes refer to |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/10?closed=1 |
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| Bug fixes |
| ~~~~~~~~~ |
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| - Fix capsnocont opcode. Also mark capital letters with capsletter |
| symbol when capsnocont is defined but no begcapsword indicator is |
| defined. Thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen. |
| - Fix the syllable opcode. It had been broken under some circumstances |
| since 3.0. Thanks to Bert Frees and Christian Egli. |
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| Other changes |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| - Fix building of Python bindings when cross-compiling. Thanks to |
| Chris Brannon |
| - lou_checkyaml is now only installed if libyaml is available. Thanks |
| to Christian Egli |
| - Major internal changes to improve MSVC compatibility. Thanks to Davy |
| Kager |
| - Enhance documentation on usage of display tables in particular in |
| conjunction with Unicode dot patterns. Thanks to Bert Frees |
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| Braille table improvements |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| - Improvements to the Swedish 8-dots table (`se-se.ctb') thanks to |
| Kevin Derome |
| - Improvements to the Simplified-Chinese Braille table thanks to |
| Roshanson |
| - Fixes for the International Phonetic Alphabet Braille table thanks |
| to Ludovic Oger |
| - Added more Unicode symbols (fractions and not equal) to the UEB |
| tables. Thanks to Paul Wood and James Bowden. |
| - Fixes to UEB grade 2 (en-ueb-g2.ctb) thanks to Mike Gray. |
| - Vastly improved Danish tables thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen. |
| - New literary tables for 6 dots, mainly for embossing (no |
| back-translation). |
| - Improved back-translation in 6 dots tables, all grades. |
| - New support for many Unicode characters in all 6 dots tables. |
| - Strengthened internal tests to prevent breaking of tables due to |
| changes in the code. |
| - Fixed 8 dots tables which were broken in the previous version. |
| - New Braille tables for Sinhala script thanks to Ashoka Bandula |
| Weerawardhana. |
| - New Hungarian grade 2 Braille table thanks to Attila Hammer. |
| - Improvements to UEB in particular to symbols specified mostly on the |
| Appendix 3 (Symbols List) from the Rules of Unified English Braille |
| Second Edition 2013 document thanks to Victor Montalvão. |
| - Improvements to Persian 8 dot computer Braille table thanks to |
| Mohammadreza Rashad. |
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| Backwards incompatible changes |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| - The old Greek table gr-gr-g1.utb is gone. Use el.ctb instead |
| - The doctests are gone. They have been superseded by the YAML tests. |
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| New, renamed or removed tables |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| New |
| --- |
| - sin.cti |
| - sin.utb |
| - hu-hu-g2.ctb (new) |
| - da-dk-6miscChars.cti (new) |
| - da-dk-g16-lit.ctb (new) |
| - da-dk-g26-lit.ctb (new) |
| - da-dk-g26l-lit.ctb (new) |
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| Renamed |
| ------- |
| - gr-gr-g1.utb (removed and replaced by el.ctb) |
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| Removed |
| ------- |
| - da-chardefs6.cti |
| - da-dk-common6.uti |
| - da-dk-g26-patches.cti |
| - da-dk-g2core.cti |
| - da-dk-nocaps.uti |
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| Next release |
| ============ |
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| The next release will be published on September 4 2017 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 |
| [3] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/wiki/Emphasis-Opcodes#upgrade-from-previous-versions |
| [4] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/wiki/Licensing-of-liblouis-tables |
