[BRLTTY] BRLTTY and the latex-access project by means of python brlapi module

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2011/11/27 at 17:22 +1100]

>I'm working on a project called latex-access:
>http://latex-access.sourceforge.net
>
>The aim of the project is to provide a nemeth translation of latex
>source code into nemeth Braille in real time for mathematical and
>scientific documents written in latex. It also has a speech module which
>converts the latex syntax to English speech for instance \frac{3}{2} = 3
>halves, and 3/2 in nemeth translation. 
>
>The project was written for jaws, but I've expanded it for emacs under
>linux. Currently it works by putting the Braille translation in a
>separate emacs window next to the source buffer. 
>
>However, the point of this email is to discuss the potential of
>using BRLTTY directly to show the translation. 

What do you think of approaching your Nemeth translator as though it were a 
contraction table. Brltty could recognize if a contraction table is executable 
or not. If it's executable then brltty could run the contraction programi n the 
background, write to it an uncontracted line (in your case, latex source), and 
read back from it a contracted line (in your case, Nemeth). Would this concept 
meet your needs?

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