Aconcagua's main goal is to act as a front-end to emboss plain text files in an Index Everest Braille Embosser. To accomplish this, it uses a command line tool (included with the download package) to translate plain text files to braille encoding using a translation table.
The translation table is completely editable since it is a file with a .tbl extension.
Aconcagua is written 100% in python without dependencies of third party libraries. So if you have got python installed you have got everything you need to run Aconcagua.

Aconcagua relies on:

• python >= 2.5.x
• gnome-terminal (for the GUI to do on-screen braille preview)
• Tkinter (GUI and config application)
• translate (python script included with the package)
• displaybraille (python script included with the package)

Aconcagua's interactive shell (console mode) relies on:

• python >= 2.5.x
• any terminal capable of displaying utf-8 characters.
  
• translate (python script included with the package)
• displaybraille (python script included with the package)

There are a few important steps you need to follow before you be able to use aconcagua with your embosser. See README file for further information about this topic.

The translation and preview tools aconcagua uses wouldn't be possible to write in python without the great work of
of Mesar Hameed and Owen Cliffe. Thanks guys for a superb example of what sharing knowledge is.

Announces and comments will be at aconcagua's blog