Re: [orca-list] OT: brailleBlaster was Re: liblouisutdml for sonar

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Had brailleblaster been written in monobasic under Linux the cil files 
it outputs could have been run on Windows just as well as on Linux.  I 
don't know if mac can run cil files with anything though.

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, kendell clark wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:52:04
> From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: brailleBlaster was Re: liblouisutdml for sonar
>
> hi
> That was my jerk reaction as well, but since I'm trying my best not to
> assume everything comes back to windows, I want to give the developers a
> chance instead of going into "why isn't linux popular" mode. It could
> just be a case of whoever kept the linux version up to date left the
> project or forgot or something. If it is a case of the linux version
> just being unmaintained it can be brought up to date if someone will do
> it. If nothing else, I could probably check out their  code repository
> assuming they have one and build brailleblaster from that. I want to put
> it in sonar eventually, preferably in time for the next stable release.
> Which will mean packaging liblouis utdml, but I was already going to do
> that. Once that's done I'm going to try to generate an ubuntu package to
> send to the vinux folks, I meant it when I said I was turning over a new
> leaf and want to work downstream with other distros other than my own.
>
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
>
> Devin Prater wrote:
> > I guess its what happened with rs-games. More people use Windows and
> > Mac, so even though it costs much more to develop for those systems,
> > they do it anyways. Crazy.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:16 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com
> > <mailto:coffeekingms gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> > > hi
> > > That reminds me. This is very much off topic hear so I'll change teh
> > > subject. What ever happened with brailleBlaster? I kept my eye on it,
> > > but it seems like the linux version fell further and further behind
> > > while the windows and mac version was kept updated. This would be a
> > > fantastic thing to put in a disability focused distro like sonar or
> > > vinux, but I can't seem to find anything up to date. I can find some
> > > older bb 1.x tarballs, but nothing newer for linux. There's a windows
> > > installer and an OSX disk image, but those won't work for linux.
> > > Thanks
> > > Kendell Clark
> > >
> > >
> > > John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > > liblouis is a translator and back-translator. liblouisutdml does
> > > > formatting and renders xml and html files. It can use liblouis for
> > > > back-translation and also produce a fairly well-formatted version of
> > > > text files.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:53:09AM -0500, kendell clark wrote:
> > > > > hi
> > > > >
> > > > > It'll be in sonar, no worries. I may have to have someone write a
> > > > > pkgbuild
> > > > > for it, and then I can put it into sonar. That's the part of
> > > > > liblouis that
> > > > > does bac translation I think, and I wonder why it's not in liblouis
> > > > > itself?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Kendell Clark
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 08/24/2016 07:32 AM, Doug Smith wrote:
> > > > > > I  n
> > > > > >
> > > > > > n there at all and no search engine I have used has found an existing
> > > > > > package for it.  I just thought it would make a great addition to the
> > > > > > system so that people will have the ability to translate braille
> > > > > > if they
> > > > > > know how to use the style sheet to make the formats work the way they
> > > > > > want.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Glad to help.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > t --
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Romans 10
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
> > > > > > believe
> > > > > > in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
> > > > > > saved.
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