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Planudes

Overview

Planudes is a Braille to print converter for Ancient (Polytonic) Greek texts. It is the inverse of Thabit.

Input files are Braille files (typically .BRA files created with a Braille Lite); the only thing is closing Greek periods with _ (dot 6).

Output file are Unicode text (UTF-8). Of course, you will need a Unicode font (Palatino Unicode, Courier Unicode, etc.). Planudes is shipped with Kadmos, a freely redistributable version of Alphabetum (an excel·lent and low-cost commercial font by Juan-José Marcos). [1].

For instance, Planudes takes a file as

  :'>anast|ntes o>vn >epore8onto, ka/ 
pr#ton mcn di( ped7ou >2}san, >en h#} 
poll( >2n >6rga >an4rjpwn@ pollo)s dc 
>an4rjpous hejrwn >en to3s >agro3s 
>ergazom6nous, h#n ohi mcn to)s bovs 
>\launon >arotre8ontes t$n >|rouran, ohi 
dc t(s >el|as sun6legon e>is t( d6ndra 
>anaba7nontes. hws dc to3s >9resi 
prose&jroun, >aljas hejrwn, >en a>3s ohi 
>|n4rwpoi to)s b9truas sun6legon@ ka/ t#n 
botr8wn to)s mcn o>7kade >6feron >9noi >en 
meg|lois kan45l7ois, to)s dc ahi guna3kes 
>ep/ t2} g2} >et74esan h#ste t#} h5l7w} 
't6rses4ai._ 

  'hejrwn =imperf. de 'hor|w=: ve/an. 
  't$n '>|rouran: la tierra de labor. 
  '>aljas: vi7edos. 
  'to)s 'b9truas: racimos de uvas. 
  '>9noi: asnos. 
  'kan45l7ois: alforjas. 
  't6rses4ai: secar.
	

and translates it into

  ἀναστάντεϛ οὖν ἐπορεύοντο, καὶ 
πρῶτον μὲν διὰ πεδίου ᾖσαν, ἐν ᾧ 
πολλὰ ἦν ἔργα ἀνθρώπων· πολλοὺϛ δὲ 
ἀνθρώπουϛ ἑώρων ἐν τοῖϛ ἀγροῖϛ 
ἐργαζομένουϛ, ὧν οἱ μὲν τοὺϛ βοῦϛ 
ἤλαυνον ἀροτρεύοντεϛ τὴν ἄρουραν, οἱ 
δὲ τὰϛ ἐλάαϛ συνέλεγον εἰϛ τὰ δένδρα 
ἀναβαίνοντεϛ. ὡϛ δὲ τοῖϛ ὄρεσι 
προσεχώρουν, ἀλώαϛ ἑώρων, ἐν αἶϛ οἱ 
ἄνθρωποι τοὺϛ βότρυαϛ συνέλεγον· καὶ τῶν 
βοτρύων τοὺϛ μὲν οἴκαδε ἔφερον ὄνοι ἐν 
μεγάλοιϛ κανθηλίοιϛ, τοὺϛ δὲ αἱ γυναῖκεϛ 
ἐπὶ τῇ γῇ ἐτίθεσαν ὧστε τῷ ἡλίῳ 
τέρσεσθαι. 

  ἑώρων (imperf. de ὁράω): veían. 
  τὴν ἄρουραν: la tierra de labor. 
  ἀλώαϛ: viñedos. 
  τοὺϛ βότρυαϛ: racimos de uvas. 
  ὄνοι: asnos. 
  κανθηλίοιϛ: alforjas. 
  τέρσεσθαι: secar.
	

License

Planudes is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, version 2).

Download

You can download the last release from SourceForge.

Technical issues

Planudes is a multiplatform program

Planudes is a perl script, so it should work perfectly on any platform in which perl is installed. It has been tested on GNU/Linux (Debian Woody, Debian Sarge and SuSE 9.0), Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), Win98 and WinXP.

Installation

If you have perl already installed, just copy all files in package into a single directory.

Usage

Just write at the commandline prompt

perl planudes.pl [-l ca|es] INPUT_FILE [OUTPUT_FILE]

If you omit the output file, a .TXT-extension file is created with the same name. The -l option indicates if text (apart from Greek pieces) is written in Spanish (es) or in Catalan (ca). That make sense because Thabit was created to convert texts for school work, in which usually questions are not written in Greek but in Spanish or Catalan.

Square brackets indicate optional parameters and options.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Noemí Sanchis for her questions and comments which contributed to improve this program. I would also like to thank Marisa Botella for her help with the English version of this web.

Specially, I would like to thank José María Villar from ONCE (Spanish Organization for the Blind) for his support and for the Braille texts he provided.

And, last but not least, thanks to Quico Saval without whom this project would never have begun.

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[1] While Kadmos is designed to write in Ancient Greek, Latin and most modern european languages, Alphabetum is an affordable and impressive commercial font that allows you to write in most of ancient and modern european languages: Old and Middle English, Russian and other Cyrillic languages (Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Abkazh, Kazakh, etc), Ogham, Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Hiragana, and many others.