I have compiled and created a Macintosh installer for the liblouis
dynamic library and the translate program.

Translate is a word/phrase based text to braille and braille to text
translator which is intened for use with braille terminals and the
like. Usage is simpe you pipe text to translate and it outputs
braille. for example

echo Text to translate into braille | translate -f /etc/brltables/en-us-g2.ctb

where -f indicate forward translate and /etc/brltables/en-us-g2.ctb is
the path to the U.S. English grade two braille table. Grade one
translation is done thus:


echo Text to translate into braille | translate -f /etc/brltables/en-us-g1.ctb

In each of the examples the output id shown on the terminal but output
could be directed to any device.

liblouis and translate are free and the souce code and documentation
are included.

Greg Kearney

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