liblouis: Introduction

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1 1 Introduction
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1 Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator
1 derived from the translation routines in the BRLTTY screen reader for
1 Linux.  It has, however, gone far beyond these routines.  It is named in
1 honor of Louis Braille.  In Linux and Mac OSX it is a shared library,
1 and in Windows it is a DLL. For installation instructions see the README
1 file.  Please report bugs and oddities to the mailing list,
1 <liblouis-liblouisxml@freelists.org>
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1    This documentation is derived from Chapter 7 of the BRLTTY manual,
1 but it has been extensively rewritten to cover new features.
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1 1.1 Who is this manual for
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1 This manual has two main audiences: People who want to write or improve
1 a braille translation table and people who want to use the braille
1 translator library in their own programs.  This manual is probably not
1 for people who are looking for some turn-key braille translation
1 software.
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1 1.2 How to read this manual
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1 If you are mostly interested in writing braille translation tables then
1 you want to focus on ⇒How to Write Translation Tables.  You might
1 want to look at ⇒Notes on Back-Translation if you are interested
1 interactively:: and ⇒Automated Testing of Translation Tables will
1 show how your braille translation tables can be tested interactively and
1 also in an automated fashion.
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1    If you want to use the braille translation library in your own
1 program or you are interested in enhancing the braille translation
11 library itself then you will want to look at ⇒Programming with
 liblouis.
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