Thank you! That's valuable information. I hope they make progress with the 
Apache FOP. I use liblouis all the time, it seems this is what they will be 
using as well. 
Evariste

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [docbook] braille and audio
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:42:53 -0700
> 
> Hi,
> As far as I know, there is no tool to directly convert DocBook XML to 
> Braille.  However, the DocBook XSL stylesheets can convert DocBook to HTML 
> or PDF, and those can be converted to Braille, according to this website:
> 
>   http://www.brailletranslator.org/
> 
> Similarly with audio, as this tool seems to be able to convert HTML to MP3:
> 
>   http://www.naturalreaders.com/
> 
> I have not used either of these tools, and other people might have other 
> recommendations.
> 
> FYI, here is a report on an attempt to use Apache FOP to generate Braille:
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/daisy-pipeline/wiki/BrailleFopRenderingReport
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> [email protected]
> 
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> From: "evaristegalois" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:41 AM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [docbook] braille and audio
> 
> > I have now read several times that the cool thing about docbook is that it
> > provides output in braille and audio as well, for example here:
> >
> > The advantage is that one SGML source file can generate any type of 
> > output:
> > Postscript, PDF, RTF, HTML, QNX Helpviewer, even audio files or braille.
> > (http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-single-sourcingwithdocbook.html)
> >
> > I work with blind people in an educational setting and would love to use
> > docbook to provide content to students. But despite extensive searching on
> > this forum, the docbook wiki, and duckduckgo (google), I cannot find
> > anything about braille or audio output. I have successfully used docbook 
> > to
> > create html and pdf output. Please tell me how I can convert an sgml or 
> > xml
> > file to brf (braille) or a sound file (any format) using an input file 
> > that
> > I've already successfully converted to pdf and html.
> >
> >
> >
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