NAME¶

lou_translate - A Braille translator for large scale testing of liblouis Braille translation tables

SYNOPSIS¶

lou_translate [OPTIONS] TABLE

DESCRIPTION¶

Translate whatever is on standard input and print it on standard output. It is intended for large-scale testing of the accuracy of braille translation and back-translation.

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-v, --version

display version information and exit

-f, --forward

forward translation using the given table

-b, --backward

backward translation using the given table If neither -f nor -b are specified forward translation is assumed

EXAMPLES¶

lou_translate language:en grade:2 region:en-US < input.txt

Do a forward translation of English text to grade 2 contracted braille according to the U.S. braille standard.

lou_translate --forward en-us-g2.ctb < input.txt

Do a forward translation with table en-us-g2.ctb.

lou_translate unicode.dis,en-us-g2.ctb < input.txt

If you require a specific braille encoding use a display table. Here we do a forward translation with table en-us-g2.ctb and a display table for Unicode braille. The resulting braille is encoded as Unicode dot patterns. When you specify a table query, the braille encoding is always Unicode dot patterns.

echo ",! qk br{n fox" | lou_translate --backward en-us-g2.ctb

Do a backward translation with table en-us-g2.ctb.

AUTHOR¶

Written by John J. Boyer.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to liblouis-liblouisxml@freelists.org.
Liblouis home page: <http://www.liblouis.io>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2022 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. and JJB Software, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

The full documentation for lou_translate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lou_translate programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info liblouis

should give you access to the complete manual.