So does this mean it will sork with a braille display or just hooked up to a braille embosser?

Debra

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>; "macvoiceover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Marcy Kreiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Iain Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keith Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mary Beth Janes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kyla Laffoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: Louis - The Macintosh Braille Translator released


Louis - The Macintosh Braille Translator version 1.0 has been released and can be downloaded from the following web site http:// w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/


DESCRIPTION:
Louis is a full featured braille translator for the Apple Macintosh. Designed around liblouis and liblouisxml Louis is designed to produce braille in a wide range of formats and languages.

    * Full Mac GUI with VoiceOver.
    * Full online and local documentation.
* Translation of MS Word, text, XML, HTML DocBook, DAISY/NIMAS, NewsML.
    * Ability to learn new XML based formats.
    * Support for a wide range of languages.
    * Support for MathML to nemeth translation.
    * Back translation.
    * Creating and saving custom configuration files.
    * Including custom files.
    * Integration with TextEdit, including a TextEdit menu script.
* Braille contextual menu for translating English text to U.S. Grade two braille in Cocoa applications.
    * Braille widget for quick translations and sign making.
    * Braille and BrailleShadow True Type fonts in the public domain.
    * Ability to run translations from he command line.

Louis and it's support pograms are free, open source under the GNU license. The source code for Louis can also be downloaded from the Louis web site http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/

Greg Kearney
Wyoming Medical Center


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