Sorry my first post failed to include the links to the software, sorry 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. The software can be downloaded at http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/liblouis/ TurboBraille and NFBtrans for MacOS X can be found at http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/ Coming next, GUI's for TurboBraille and NFBtrans. Greg Kearney
