[BRLTTY] embossing documents in braille

Lars Bjørndal lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no
Tue Nov 11 16:20:19 EST 2008


Hi, Daniel!

You wrote:

> I need to emboss  a couple of documents in braille. Is this possible on
> a linux box? If so how? I have a mount batton brailler. It is one of the
> older ones I got it like 6 or 7 years ago at least.

I don't know anything about your embosser. However, what's needed, is
a properly formatted text file that you can send to your embosser over
the appropriate interface. You can use liblouis/liblouisxml that  you
find at <http://jjb-software.com> to do the conversion.

Good luck!

Lars


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