[BRLTTY] re: Python brlapi and translation table question

[Jason White]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> The approach that Bill proposed with gnome-braille may be fine: have
> a common translation library which would translate braille at the
> application level, allowing full-featured scrolling. The tables for
> 1-to-1 mappings may be fetched from the currently running brltty, while
> more complex scripts would be handled by gnome-braille modules.

This seems reasonable. For contracted braille, it would also be desirable to
be able to invoke liblouis (http://www.jjb-software.com/) instead of relying
on the earlier version of the same code which is now in BRLTTY. To generalize
this further, a BRLTTY API for external braille translation libraries might be
desirable.