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liblouis NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.0 (2009-11-23) This release contains a number of improvements notably the integration of gnulib, the automatic generation of man pages and the addition of tables for German grade 2. ** New features *** New tables     - Tables German Grade 2     - Swiss German *** Modified tables     - Updated Norwegian tables *** man pages     All tools accept the --version and --help options and are     documented in man pages *** Corpus based test cases for tables     You can now have corpus based tests for tables. See the README in     tests/table_test_corpuses. ** Bug fixes    - Many small fixes * Noteworthy changes in release 1.7.0 (2009-08-21) The main new feature of this release is the support for UK and Marburg math. Other changes include a new tool to check hyphenation and the usual improvement and addition of tables. Also The test suite has been enhanced and finally passes. ** New features *** New tables     - Tables for UK and Marburg math     - Hong Kong Cantonese     - Hebrew     - Hungarian     - Slovene     - Tibetan     - Irish     - Maltese *** Modified tables     - Updated Norwegian tables     - Bug fixes in Russian tables     - Updated French tables *** lou_checkhyphens tool     New tool to check hyphenation *** rpm spec file *** Test cases for tables     The tables can now be tested with `make check' *** New opcodes     - noback and nofor opcode prefixes     - grouping opcode     - multipass subopcodes ** Bug fixes    - Fix for library name and Python bindings    - Documentation fixes    - Many small fixes * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6.2 (2009-05-01) This release contains a new opcode for Malaysian Braille. See the documentation for a description of the new opcode. ** New features *** repword opcode The repword opcode is needed for Malaysian Braille * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6.1 (2009-04-21) This is mostly a bug fix release. It contains many bug fixes that were discovered in the course of developing UK Math tables. ** Bug fixes *** bugfixes for correct, context and multipass opcodes *** bugfixes for largesign opcode *** fixed bug with French back-translation *** fixed the installation path for docs *** documentation improvement * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2009-03-04) This release features support for Danish and Russian and updated tables for French and Norwegian. The search path for tables can now be specified using an environment variable. Finally there is the usual assortment of bug fixes. ** New features *** exactdots opcode The exactdots opcode is intended for use in liblouisxml semantic-action files to specify exact dot patterns, as in mathematical codes. *** LOUIS_TABLEPATH env variable You can now specify where liblouis is to look for tables with the LOUIS_TABLEPATH environment variable. *** New Tables for Danish and Russian There is now support for Danish and Russian. ** Bug fixes *** Updated French and Norwegian tables *** Use stdcall calling convention if building for Windows ** Changes in behavior None * Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2009-01-21) This is a big release for liblouis. It's the first time that it is done from the Google code page. A number of people have contributed, namely John Boyer (table debugger, bug fixes), Eitan Isaacson (Python bindings), James Teh (Python bindings, bug fixes), Christian Egli (documentation) and Michel Such (table for French grade 2). ** New features *** Python bindings The liblouis library can now be used from Python. For more info consult the README file in the python directory. *** Table debugger liblouis now comes with a debugger that can help to find problems with translation tables. *** French table for grade 2 There is now a translation table for French grade 2. *** pass1Only mode bit The new pass1Only mode bit will help developers of screen readers as the cursor will stay where it is expected to. ** Bug fixes Fix the inpos array values for the case where a rule has an output length which is larger than its input length. fixed multi-word phrases fixed bug in character display fixed bug in findOpcodeName lou_version now returns the correct liblouis version ** Changes in behavior None Local variables: mode: org end: