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by Mats Lundälv :: Rate this Message:

Hi Steve and all! See my comments below ...

Mats

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Datum: 2009-06-18 16:27
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David, Mats, thanks for the idea and I will pass them on.

Great Steve, thanks!

2009/6/12 Mats Lundälv <mats.lundalv@...>

Being heavily involved in the CCF work I of course agree with David's point. The problem may be timing. We are close to finalising a first full release of the CCF - but it may be until a bit into the autumn until we have a first more comprehensive vocabulary with Blissymbols (as first target - support for other freely available symbol libraries to follow later on).

Straight-street should be out then as well. What is the status now with bliss? I was just discussing them with someone and realised last I heard they were still in limbo.

We have already prepared a slot for Straight-street, so that's great!
There is no major problem with Bliss really. In BCI we are now in principle united on a strategy of making Blissymbol resources available under two types of licences: A free license of CC-by-sa type, and a traditional license with royalty claims from BCI for packaging in proprietary products (that is, typical proprietary AAC software packages of today).

There is just a delay in difining the details for this for a formal and official desicion. This is because other urgent job to properly organise and document the vocabulary has had to be prioritised during the past year. This is now being completed, and the licensing issues will be dealt within the next year.

Are there any public news items on CCF that explain what is happening

I have just updated the CCF info in Oatsoft - see http://www.conceptcoding.org

But we should be able to provide the basic CCF API to support before that. When is this PowerReader work envisaged to happen?

Perhaps over the summer holidays (US)

Other thoughts: It's rather important that text content from different sorces can be conveniently read via PowerReader - and not only plain text files as currently. It may, on the other hand be a quite heavy task to support several different major formats? One idea worth investigating could be PowerReader as an OpenOffice extension. The advantage being to have OO.o taking care of document and document format handling, as well as wider and cross-platform deployment, and just concentrating on the unique additional presentation features of PowerReader. Could the current Java app be reasonably smoothly integrated in OO.o (via some XUL wrapper etc.) or would this require some more complete re-write?

An interesting idea. I do not know if OOo has an easy extension/plugin architecture, but heard the main code was a large complex C beast that has a steep learning curve

There is definitely an extension/plugin architecture. Not being a programmer I cannot personally confirm that it's easy, but it should be fairly straight-forward. You're definitely not forced to dive into the C code of the main program. Talking to a Swedish developer who make special spell-checking plugins for MS Word and OO.org, I asked about their experience after doing the OO.org version, and the reply was that it was a lot better than doing the MS Word one.

There is a lot of information about this at the OO.org site, and tools are available in develpment environments like NetBeans and Eclipse.

Cheers /ML

Steve

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