Louis - The Macintosh braille translator

Louis is a full featured braille translator for the Apple Macintosh. Designed around liblouis and liblouisxml Louis is designed to compete with Duxbury and similar commercial programs used to produce braille. Louis feathers the following:

• Full Mac GUI with VoiceOver.
• Full online and local documentation.
• Translation of MS Word, text, XML, HTML DocBook, DAISY/NIMAS, NewsML, rtf.
• Ability to learn new XML based formats.
• Support for a wide range of languages.
• Support for MathML to nemeth translation.
• Back translation.
• Creating and saving custom configuration files.
• Including custom files.
• Integration with TextEdit, including a TextEdit menu script.
• Braille contextual menu for translating English text to U.S. Grade two braille in Cocoa applications.
• Braille widget for quick translations and sign making.
• Braille and BrailleShadow True Type fonts in the public domain.
• Ability to run translations from he command line.

What's New in version 1.3

• Choice of text or HTML output for back translation.
• Better suppor for non-standard html file.
• Back translating to HTML will preserve page numbers.
• Convert full text DAISY to braille.

Louis and it's support pograms are free, open source under the GNU license.

Download Louis Installer

Download Louis source code (Xcode project)

Should you need to update only the Louis application and not the libraries and support programs use this link.

Louis Application Only

Occationally it is required that you remove Louis before installing an update. You can use this removal program to do this.

Remove Louis

If you would like to contact me please email Gregory Kearney
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