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) 2019 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.
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
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
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/v3.13.0/liblouis-3.13.0.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://liblouis.org/.
Liblouis 3.13.0 June 2022 LOU_TRANSLATE(1)