Get involved !
Developers that are interested in this open source project and wish to contribute are very welcome to contact us. You can pick a task from the task list below, but you can of course also suggest new idea's.
The source code can be viewed and downloaded on Sourceforge. For more information read the developer's guide.
Task List
Following is a list of the most important issues:
- Mac OS, Linux !!!
- Support for more embossers
- Complete documentation
- Localisation
- odt2braille for presentations & spreadsheets
- Tactile graphics
Documentation
The user manual is currently only available in English. Your help in translating it to other languages would be highly appreciated. This DocBook is the source file which is used to derive the html, pdf, ... versions of the manual. You can edit the file with an xml (or text) editor. It is written in such a way that new languages can be added easily.
Localisation
Please consider helping us localise odt2braille. You don't need any programming skills; you can simply fill in this form. If you prefer working in a file, please download this Excel sheet. from the repository.
| Language | Status | Contributors | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Bert Frees | ||
| Dutch | Bert Frees, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| French | Dominique Archambault, Frédéric Heulin, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Catalan | Carles Sadurní Anguita | ||
| Spanish | Carles Sadurní Anguita, Fabiola Avila, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Portuguese | Marco Oliva, Sérgio Lopes, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Slovenian | Martin Srebotnjak, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| German | Sascha Myzek, Sebastian Humenda, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Roger Araújo | ||
| Norwegian Bokmål | Morten Goodwin, Martin Bekkelund, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Italian | Interscienze, Gerry Sicignano, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Swedish | Peter Engström (Index Braille), Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Polish | Krzysztof Śmiałek | ||
| Czech | Jan Halousek, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Arabic | Abdullah Hattab | ||
| Danish | Elsebeth Schröder, Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Turkish | Ugur Demirci (Braille Teknik Ltd.) | ||
| Icelandic | Christophe Strobbe | ||
| Greek | |||
| Romanian | |||
| Slovak | |||
| Bulgarian | |||
| Finnish | |||
| Serbian | |||
| Croatian | |||
| Estonian | |||
| Lithuanian |
License
odt2braille is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 (LGPL 3). It uses code from
- liblouisxml (LGPL version 3);
- odt2daisy (LGPL version 3);
- DAISY Pipeline (LGPL version 2.1 or later).
The licences used by these projects are compatible with the licence for odt2braille; see the licence compatibility matrix on the GNU website.
Copyright © 2010 by DocArch http://www.docarch.be.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.