speakup version 3.1.0 is out.

[Kirk Reiser]

Hello everybody: We have just tagged version 3.1.0 of speakup.  This
release is the result of our modifying speakup to support i18n or
international language support.  Of course, we don't have any i18n
strings or messages available yet but that's where you all come in.

We have also started moving speakup towards what will be it's new home
in the sysfs or /sys file system.  Now all speakup's parameters are
available in /sys/accessibility/speakup and below.  The i18n string
files are in guess where? i18n/ and synth specific parameters are in
the synth name subdirectory such as soft/ or ltlk/.  One advantage
from our perspective of making this move is it will allow some files
to be modified by the user instead of by root.  The hardware synth
support will eventually move to another location but for now it seems
happy where we've placed it.

The speakupconf script for those of you that use it has been modified
to support the new quarters and has itself moved to a new home in a
tools subdirectory of the speakup tree because we've taken on it's
responsibility for maintenance.  The talkwith script of Chuck's will
need to be modified and sent back to us but I understand Chuck has
already been contacted about that.

If any of you are interested in providing language strings for your
favourite mother tongue please take copies of the files in
/sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n and edit those to reflect the new
strings.  You can then send them to this list or any of the core team
members for inclusion in a future speakup release.

This has been a pretty significant set of changes to the core code so
there may be many little wigglies which need to be squished before it
is really stable.  However we have tested much of it and hopefully
caught most of the big bugs.  I think that William Hubbs and Chris
Brannon have done some amazing work getting this done as quickly as
they have and want to thank them very much.

   Kirk
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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061