Spring2009ReleaseTrain
From daisymfc
This is the action item tracker for the Spring 2009 release of the Daisy Pipeline.
The tables below do not include testing assignments.
Target internal prerelease: Friday 20th of February
RC1 Release: 3d of April
Final release: 10th of April
Initials: DS=DesignScience, JH=Joel Håkansson, RD=Romain Deltour, MG=Markus Gylling, CE=Christian Egli, GK=Greg Kearney, LE=Linus Ericson
Contents |
must do
| Item | Who | Status |
| MathML | ||
| Test Narrator MathML Support | DS | DONE |
| Include DS MathDaisy in Windows Installer | RD | DONE |
| PEF | ||
| Include PEF scripts | JH | DONE |
| PEF Script and Overview Documentation | JH | DONE |
| Latex | ||
| Include new Dtbook2Latex Script | CE | DONE |
| Dtbook2Latex Script documentation | CE | DONE |
| Audacity Save-as-DAISY | ||
| Include first public beta | MG | DONE |
| Improvements to beta Documentation | GK | DONE |
| Fix bugs reported by GK and SOgami | MG | DOCed |
| Narrator | ||
| Updates to shipped Narrator script backported from MS SADX Script | MG | DONE |
| Documentation on using Narrator with (multiple) TTS slave servers | LE | DONE |
| Include default Linux Narrator config | MG | DONE |
| Include Linux AT&T Natural Voices config | CE | DONE |
| CLI | ||
| Add CLI launcher scripts to the GUI release | RD | DONE |
| BrailleNet XSLTs | ||
| Check possible inclusion of DTBook2XHTML with TOC, DTBook2Multi XHTML | RD | DONE |
| RMI | ||
| Add RMI-callable Pipeline instance | RD | DONE |
| GUI | ||
| Upgrade the RCP framework to 3.4 to support VoiceOver accessibility | RD | DONE |
| Libraries | ||
| Include ZedVal 2.1 proper | MG | DONE |
| Include latest EpubCheck | MG | DONE |
| Documentation | ||
| Update doc/enduser/installing-lame.html | MG | DONE |
| Update CLI info (cvsdude wiki) | RD | DONE |
| Update daisy.org project page | MG | DONE |
| Push doc suite to shell | RD | DONE |
| Update doc/scripts/narrator | MG | DONE |
| Update http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline/other-add-ins.shtml | MG | DONE |
may do
| Item | Who | Status |
| Reorganize the script tree | JH, MG | DONE |
| MacOSX speech annotations | MG | NOT DONE |
| Upgrade to Saxon 9, Jing2008 | MG, RD | NOT DONE |
Release Notes
Final Release Notes (2009-04-09)
- Support for MathML-in-DAISY in Narrator. Read more in the Narrator documentation [1].
- Narrator now works on out-of-the-box on Linux as well as Mac OS X and Windows. Read more in the Narrator documentation.
- Narrator now supports multiple language TTS rendering on all platforms
- Several scripts relating to the Portable Embosser Format (PEF), thanks to Joel Håkansson, TPB
- A brand new version of the DTBook to RTF converter, thanks to Ole Holst Andersen, DBB
- A beta of Save-as-DAISY Audacity
- New option to generate a Table of Contents in the Dtbook to XHTML conversion, thanks to Alex Bernier, BrailleNet
- New option to split the result of the Dtbook to XHTML conversion in multiple pages, thanks to Alex Bernier, BrailleNet
- User Interface: reorganization of the script tree
- User Interface: now accessible via VoiceOver on Mac
- User Interface: Command line launcher scripts are now available in the Pipeline GUI installation
- Fixes to the DTBook 1.1.0 to DTBook 2005 Forward Migrator, thanks to Alex Bernier, BrailleNet
- Many improvements to the Dtbook to LaTeX conversion, thanks to Christian Egli, SBS
- Finnish localization of the Structure Announcer (used in Narrator), thanks to Päivi Suhonen, Celia Library for the Visually Impaired
- Improvement of handling of very large documents (increased max allowed memory usage)
- ... and many bug fixes.
[1] http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/doc/scripts/Narrator-DtbookToDaisy.html
Pipeline RC1 Release, 2009-04-03
- Reorganization of the script tree.
- Fixes to the DTBook 1.1.0 to DTBook 2005 Forward Migrator, thanks to Alex Bernier, BrailleNet
- Improvements the DTBook to RTF converter, thanks to Ole Holst Andersen, DBB
- Finnish localization of the Structure Announcer (used in the Narrator), thanks to Päivi Suhonen, Celia Library for the Visually Impaired
- Command line launcher scripts are now available in the Pipeline GUI installation.
- Improvement of the default Java heap space value
Pipeline Beta Release, 2009-02-13
- Support for MathML in DAISY in Narrator. Read more in the Narrator documentation.
- Support for Narrator on Linux. Read more in the Narrator documentation.
- The desktop user interface is now accessible via VoiceOver on Mac (RCP framework upgraded to 3.4.1).
- Many improvements to the Dtbook to LaTeX conversion, thanks to Christian Egli, SBS
- A beta of Save-as-DAISY Audacity.
- Several scripts relating to the Portable Embosser Format (PEF), thanks to Joel Håkansson, TPB
- ... and many bug fixes.
Important note - if you are using Lame to encode MP3 files, you need to use version 3.98.2 or later.
For hints on where to get Lame, please see http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline/other-add-ins.shtml
