lou_translate - A Braille translator for large scale testing of liblouis Braille translation tables
lou_translate [OPTIONS] TABLE[,TABLE,...]
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NAME
lou_translate - A Braille translator for large scale testing of
liblouis Braille translation tables
SYNOPSIS
lou_translate [OPTIONS] TABLE[,TABLE,...]
DESCRIPTION
Translate whatever is on standard input and print it on standard out-
put. 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 --forward en-us-g2.ctb < input.txt
Do a forward translation with table en-us-g2.ctb. The resulting
braille is ASCII encoded.
lou_translate unicode.dis,en-us-g2.ctb < input.txt
Do a forward translation with table en-us-g2.ctb. The resulting
braille is encoded as 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.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. and JJB Software, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | library/liblouis |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases/down-
load/v3.5.0/liblouis-3.5.0.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://liblouis.org/.
lou_translate (Liblouis) 3.5.0
August 2018 LOU_TRANSLATE(1)