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BrailleBlaster 2.1.3: Major software update
New and improved features for BrailleBlaster and important information about how to access files created with the old software.
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BrailleBlaster is a free braille transcription program developed by the American Printing House for the Blind to help transcribers provide blind students with braille textbooks.
Its been over a year since the last stable BrailleBlaster release. I am pleased to announce the release of BrailleBlaster 2.1.3-stable and with the many improvements I think the wait has been worth it. Although we have not changed the major version number, this update is definitely a major improvement. When compared with the previous stable release the file handling is significantly improved, many more NIMAS files correctly open, table handling is very much improved and an overhauled find and replace tool. There are many more improvements and bug fixes. We recommend all users to update to this latest version, even beta users should upgrade as there have been important bug fixes since the last beta version.
One very important thing to highlight is that we had to make [...]