So, is there a, well, stable and featurefull braille program out there then? The thing I liked about Louis is that I could make files that had math in them, and it would turn it to Nemath code, I couldn't get it to do much though, it just wouldn't create the braille file after a few tries with it.
Sent from my iPod On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:04 PM, "Henry D. Hollithron" <teetah1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good Day: > > Indeed. This program appears to be quite prone to crashing. I realise that > it is open-source and thus not meant to be perfect, but I don't think it's > yet ready for stable use. The exception thrown by the program that you copied > below occurs, I think, when it pops up a dialog stating that "the braille > facility is not available," whatever that means, and when you indicate that > you don't want to continue. Even when I did get past that, when I tried to > launch the tutorial from the help menu, it did open safari, but it also > crashed the java runtime environment. Perhaps I should send an email to the > developers to see if they're still planning to work on this. For now, though, > I wouldn't use it for production use. > As for Louis, it is free, but I've had very little luck getting it to > translate complicated documents--it keeps giving me blank braille files. It > does, however, have the virtue of being significantly more stable and might, > based on comments from other people who have used it successfully, be able to > translate your document if it's simple enough. Perhaps someone more > experienced with the program could give you better help in that direction. > Here is the web page for it, in case you're interested: > > http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis > > HTH: > Henry > > Education never ends. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the > last. > Sherlock Homes > > On 21 Feb 2013, at 19:06, Mark Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Okay, and here's what I get when I try and launch it from terminal: >> ror >> at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Unknown Source) >> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError >> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) >> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) >> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) >> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) >> ... 1 more >> mark-baxters-macbook-pro:~ MBH$ >> >> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> • My home page: >> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
