[BRLTTY] Brltty and the latex-access project

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2011/12/12 at 12:45 +1100]

>I was just wondering whether the addition of executable contraction
>tables to support the latex-access project we discussed last week was
>still a possibility. There is no hurry of course, i'm just receiving
>some pressure from fellow developers as to the status of this project so
>we can be aware of roughly how long it should take? 

Yes, it's definitely feasible. Unfortunately, I do have a paying job to contend 
with, and, once in a while, my management likes to make high priority demands 
on my time. That's why I was unable to work on this project last week.

I've actually, just now, added the infrastructure for executable contraction 
tables. The rest will just be coding in this specific area. All the changes 
that impact the general code have now been made.

>We've began implementing cursor routing support into our code as well,
>so it's definitely worth supporting this, although we do have quite a
>bit of work to do on this still. 

Excellent! We'll have to decide on a format for you to pass this data back to 
brltty. BRF, of course, won't be good enough. I'll include support for BRF 
because it's good enough for the normal case, but we'll need a way to pass more 
information. We may even want to consider, right up front, a way to pass all 
eight dots, rather than just six, as well.

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