liblouis 1.6.0 has been released

The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release 1.6.0. 
The release is available for download at:

    http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/downloads/list

Introduction
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Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It
features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports
contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1].
It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and
is used by screenreaders such as NVDA and Orca. A companion project
liblouisutdml/liblouisxml[2] deals with formatting of braille.

Changes in this release
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This release features support for Danish and Russian and updated
tables for French and Norwegian. The search path for tables can now be
specified using an environment variable. Finally there is the usual
assortment of bug fixes.

New features:

* exactdots opcode
The exactdots opcode can be used liblouisxml semantic-action files to
specify exact dot patterns, for example for mathematical codes.

* LOUIS_TABLEPATH env variable
You can now specify where liblouis is to look for tables with the
LOUIS_TABLEPATH environment variable.

* New Tables for Danish and Russian
There is now support for Danish and Russian.

Bug fixes:

* Updated French and Norwegian tables

* Use stdcall calling convention if building for Windows

Share and Enjoy!

-- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers

Footnotes
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[1]  See http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/
[2]  See http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/ and
     http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ 

