Hello folks, This is to announce the very early begining of Dots, a braille transcriber program for GNOME. Dots aims to fill the niche of desktop braille publishing. Providing easy conversion from rich document formats to clean, embosser ready, literal braille. Dots can also be used to format documents for comfortable online reading using a refreshable braille display. An obvious priority will be good screen reader (Orca) support.
Dots is powered by liblouisxml, a powerful braille transcribing library. It is still in proof of concept stage. My hope is to quickly have this gain traction and contributors, since I will not have much time to work on this in the next few months. If this sounds like something you want to help lead, let me know. This is what Dots does today: - Import MS Word files. - Choose among many tables for different languages and contractions. - Customize the braille output. - Review the braille output. - Save the output to an embosser-ready file. Here is the bad news: - Limited Orca testing. - Requires the development branch of GTK+ (2.15). - No interactivity, besides the initial import no editing can be done, this will be the killer feature once it is implemented. - Many bugs and missing features. - No documentation whatsoever, only this announcement! The code could be viewed, checked out, and forked here: https://github.com/eeejay/dots/tree Some screen shots could be viewed here: http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/280491/1/dots_screenshot?h=58a0fd I hope to follow up with a screen reader screen cast soon. Cheers! Eitan. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
