| liblouis NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.3.0 (2011-05-09) |
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| ** New features |
| *** Multiple table search path |
| The environment variable LOUIS_TABLEPATH can now contain a list of |
| paths (separated by commas) where liblouis should look for tables. |
| This allows the user to keep local tables. |
| *** New --quiet option for lou_checktable |
| lou_checktable writes to stderr even in the case of success. This |
| can now be suppressed with the new option --quiet. |
| *** New Swedish table |
| A new table for Swedish braille has been provided by Samuel |
| Thibault. |
| *** New table for Sorani (Kurdish) |
| A new table for Sorani (Kurdish) Braille has been donated by |
| Peter Engström from Index Braille |
| *** New table for Ethiopic |
| A new table for Ethiopic Braille has been donated by Peter |
| Engström from Index Braille |
| *** New table for Serbian |
| A new table for Serbian Braille has been donated by Peter |
| Engström from Index Braille |
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| ** Improved the documentation |
| The deprecated opcodes have been moved to a separate section |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| - Fixed a long standing bug with an infinite loop in the table |
| compiler |
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| ** Braille Table Improvements |
| - Improvements to the Chinese braille table |
| - Improvements to the Flemish Braille Math Code tables |
| - Improvements to the Dutch Braille tables |
| - Improvements to the Spanish Braille tables. |
| - Fixes for the uncontracted French 6 and 8 dot tables |
| - Improved support for Italian 8 dot |
| - Improvements to the Generic Arabic Grade 1 table |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.2.0 (????-??-??) |
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| ** New features |
| *** New tables |
| - Support for many indian languages |
| - Support for Icelandic 6- and 8-dot |
| - Support for Catalan |
| - Support for Dutch Braille (for Belgium and the Netherlands) |
| - Support for Flemish Braille Math Code (a.k.a. Woluwe code) |
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| *** New functions to make libraries relocatable |
| Two new functions, to set the search path for tables and files. |
| They make the library relocatable. See the in the documentation |
| for lou_setDataPath and lou_getDataPath. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| - Improved support for Spanish |
| - Improved Norwegian tables |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.1.1 (2010-8-23) |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| - Fixed problems with the Danish grade 2 table |
| - Fixed problems with the Marburg maths table for mathematics and |
| the UK maths table for mathematics |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.1.0 (2010-8-19) |
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| ** New features |
| *** New tables |
| - Added tables for Portuguese grade 1 and 2 |
| - Added unicode.dis for Unicode braille |
| *** Modified tables |
| - Updated Danish tables |
| *** Implemented language to table mapping |
| *** New format of error messages |
| The error messages are now reported in a format similar to the one |
| used in gcc. |
| *** New opcode |
| - added undefined opcode |
| *** Python bindings |
| - Allow the user to configure the maximum output length by |
| specifying a number by which the input length is multiplied |
| using the outlenMultiplier module variable. The default will |
| handle the case where every input character is undefined in the |
| translation table. Previously, this was hard-coded to 2, which |
| was insufficient in some cases. |
| - Add compbrlLeftCursor mode constant. |
| - Add compileString function which wraps lou_compileString. |
| - Corrections/clarifications to docstrings. |
| - Add python binding for the lou_hyphenate function. |
| - Added python wrapper for lou_backTranslateString and lou_backTranslate. |
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| *** liblouisxslt as an example |
| Add liblouisxslt as an example to python/examples. This is |
| basically an extension of libxslt that lets you invoke liblouis |
| from an xslt stylesheet to do Braille translation on text nodes |
| for example. |
| *** compbrlLeftCursor |
| Added a patch provided by Volker Bijewitz to implement |
| compbrlLeftCursor. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| *** output cursorPos |
| Fix the output cursorPos when the compbrlAtCursor mode is enabled |
| and the characters around the cursor translate to multiple braille |
| cells, such as in the Chinese braille tables. |
| *** outpos when doing back translation |
| Include a patch by Timothy Lee to fix outpos when doing back translation |
| (issue 11) |
| *** inputPos/outputPos for undefined characters |
| Fix the input/output position arrays for characters in the input |
| which are undefined in the translation table. |
| *** table fixes |
| - Fixed a bug with back translation of '*n'. (issue 13) |
| - Fixes to the en-us-g2.ctb table |
| *** Python bindings |
| - Remove unnecessary imports, allowing the bindings to run in Python |
| 2.7. (issue 12) |
| - lou_translate* writes output information in typeform, so |
| allocate enough bytes for it. Fixes possible buffer overruns and |
| resultant crashes. |
| *** Miscellaneous |
| - Fixes to the man page generation to fix issues that were |
| reported by the Debian packaging builder |
| - Do not invoke help2man when cross-compiling |
| - Documentation updates (issue 10) |
| - Removing noletsign defaults |
| - Many small fixes |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.0.0 (2010-7-6) |
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| ** New features |
| *** New functions |
| - Adding lou_charSize function |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2010-6-29) |
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| ** New features |
| *** New functions |
| - lou_dotsToChar and lou_charToDots function |
| - Added lou_compileString for adding entries to tables at |
| run-time. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.0 (2009-11-23) |
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| This release contains a number of improvements notably the integration |
| of gnulib, the automatic generation of man pages and the addition of |
| tables for German grade 2. |
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| ** New features |
| *** New tables |
| - Tables German Grade 2 |
| - Swiss German |
| - Swedish (1989 standard) |
| - Swedish (1996 standard) |
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| *** Modified tables |
| - Updated Norwegian tables |
| - Updated Chinese braille table |
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| *** man pages |
| All tools accept the --version and --help options and are |
| documented in man pages |
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| *** Corpus based test cases for tables |
| You can now have corpus based tests for tables. See the README in |
| tests/table_test_corpuses. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| - config.h is no longer exported |
| - Many small fixes |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.7.0 (2009-08-21) |
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| The main new feature of this release is the support for UK and Marburg |
| math. Other changes include a new tool to check hyphenation and the |
| usual improvement and addition of tables. Also The test suite has been |
| enhanced and finally passes. |
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| ** New features |
| *** New tables |
| - Tables for UK and Marburg math |
| - Hong Kong Cantonese |
| - Hebrew |
| - Hungarian |
| - Slovene |
| - Tibetan |
| - Irish |
| - Maltese |
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| *** Modified tables |
| - Updated Norwegian tables |
| - Bug fixes in Russian tables |
| - Updated French tables |
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| *** lou_checkhyphens tool |
| New tool to check hyphenation |
| *** rpm spec file |
| *** Test cases for tables |
| The tables can now be tested with `make check' |
| *** New opcodes |
| - noback and nofor opcode prefixes |
| - grouping opcode |
| - multipass subopcodes |
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| ** Bug fixes |
| - Fix for library name and Python bindings |
| - Documentation fixes |
| - Many small fixes |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6.2 (2009-05-01) |
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| This release contains a new opcode for Malaysian Braille. See the |
| documentation for a description of the new opcode. |
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| ** New features |
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| *** repword opcode |
| The repword opcode is needed for Malaysian Braille |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6.1 (2009-04-21) |
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| This is mostly a bug fix release. It contains many bug fixes that were |
| discovered in the course of developing UK Math tables. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
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| *** bug fixes for correct, context and multipass opcodes |
| *** bug fixes for largesign opcode |
| *** fixed bug with French back-translation |
| *** fixed the installation path for docs |
| *** documentation improvement |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2009-03-04) |
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| This release features support for Danish and Russian and updated |
| tables for French and Norwegian. The search path for tables can now be |
| specified using an environment variable. Finally there is the usual |
| assortment of bug fixes. |
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| ** New features |
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| *** exactdots opcode |
| The exactdots opcode is intended for use in liblouisxml |
| semantic-action files to specify exact dot patterns, as in |
| mathematical codes. |
| *** LOUIS_TABLEPATH env variable |
| You can now specify where liblouis is to look for tables with the |
| LOUIS_TABLEPATH environment variable. |
| *** New Tables for Danish and Russian |
| There is now support for Danish and Russian. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
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| *** Updated French and Norwegian tables |
| *** Use stdcall calling convention if building for Windows |
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| ** Changes in behavior |
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| None |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2009-01-21) |
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| This is a big release for liblouis. It's the first time that it is |
| done from the Google code page. A number of people have contributed, |
| namely John Boyer (table debugger, bug fixes), Eitan Isaacson (Python |
| bindings), James Teh (Python bindings, bug fixes), Christian Egli |
| (documentation) and Michel Such (table for French grade 2). |
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| ** New features |
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| *** Python bindings |
| The liblouis library can now be used from Python. For more info |
| consult the README file in the python directory. |
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| *** Table debugger |
| liblouis now comes with a debugger that can help to find problems with |
| translation tables. |
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| *** French table for grade 2 |
| There is now a translation table for French grade 2. |
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| *** pass1Only mode bit |
| The new pass1Only mode bit will help developers of screen readers as |
| the cursor will stay where it is expected to. |
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| ** Bug fixes |
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| Fix the inpos array values for the case where a rule has an output |
| length which is larger than its input length. |
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| fixed multi-word phrases |
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| fixed bug in character display |
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| fixed bug in findOpcodeName |
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| lou_version now returns the correct liblouis version |
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| ** Changes in behavior |
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| None |
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