Re: Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

[Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com>]

Hi,

We were right now setting up the requirements for the Braille
transcriptor, and it's really great that there is already an
application like this in development.

I think the best approach is that we start contributing to dots
instead of writing a new application from the scratch. We could work
on adding it new features based on our requirements and improve the
application in general.

Some inital thoughts about stuff we could contribute:

1) Abstract the functionality into a library, so we can have a
separate non-graphical command line tool and the graphical front end
2) Add support for odt documents
3) Add support for pdf documents
4) Add an OpenOffice filter using the dots library to export files
into .brl formats directly
5) Create a conversion table viewer/editor (probably a separate application)
6) Output presettings

So, what do you think about this?

Comments about the OOo plugin:

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel thibault ens-lyon org> wrote:

> The thing is: I don't understand which integration there could be :)
>
> As I understand it, being called on-the-fly by OpenOffice.org means
> making it an OpenOffice.org plugin, that lives in the ooffice process.
> I doubt having that plugin interact with another process would be the
> simplest way to go, and would rather see the plugin just already have
> everything it needs, independently of another tool that would be able to
> do the same, but as a separate application. Libraries containing the
> actual code can be shared of course: not only liblouis, but also the
> dialog boxes to configure how the rendering should be done.

Yeah, that is the idea after abstracting the funcionalily of dots into
a library, so we can easily create a python plugin for OpenOffice.

Salu2