Josh, or anyone else, would you happen to know what the command line switch is in NFBtrans to do a back translation? I will implement NFBtrans as the back translator if I can figure it out.

Greg
On Jun 5, 2007, at 08:20 , Josh de Lioncourt wrote:

Hi Greg,

I'm guessing that the Mac Port of NFBTrans is command line based. Any chance of incorperating it as an alternative translation engine in the Louis program, specificly for back translating and possibly other tasks? It has been my experience that not all translation engines are created equal, and having an alternative engine in the Louis GUI might be handy. NFBTrans does back translation flawlessly in my experience. Just a thought. Thanks for all your hard work.

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On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:

I would point out that I have a Mac port of NFBtrans on the site http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/ if that is of any help.

Greg
On Jun 5, 2007, at 07:56 , Josh de Lioncourt wrote:

On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
While I have everyone's attention can I ask just how important is it to do back translation. I will confess to being a bit suprized at the seeming interest in doing this. Just what perpous is back translation being put to?


I have, and have access to, a huge number of materials in Braille form, but rarely have access to Braille embossers or displays these days. Hence, back translation is the only way of reading these files. The back translation feature of the program will be what I primarily use it for, in fact. Up until now I've been using an open source DOS command line program called NFBTrans on my Windows box, but it has become more and more of a pain as I move away from that OS. I am far from unique in needing back translation capability.


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