Man1 - lou_translate.1

lou_translate - A Braille translator for large scale testing of liblouis Braille translation tables

lou_translate [/OPTIONS/] TABLE[/,TABLE,/…]

Translate whatever is on standard input and print it on standard output. It is intended for large-scale testing of the accuracy of Braille translation and back-translation.

-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

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.

Written by John J. Boyer.

Report bugs to liblouis-liblouisxml@freelists.org.
Liblouis home page: http://www.liblouis.org

Copyright © 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.

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.