[BRLTTY] Unicode mathematical symbols

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2014/10/16 at 09:36 +0200]

>I'm wondering whether work has already been done in brltty to represent
>Unicode mathematical symbols in braille.

We have a contraction table named latex-access which does at least some of 
that. It reads math written in LaTeX, and translates it into braille. It needs 
to be used in conjunction with the latex-access package. If you look at it, 
you'll see that it's actually code. It's marked as executable, so brltty runs 
it rather than just looks things up in it.

>Are there already widely accepted braille representations for such
>symbols?
>If not, shouldn't we try to come up with something?

I have no idea how braille math is taught in other countries. Here in North 
America, the best way of representing math in braille that I myself am aware of 
is what's known as the Nemeth Code.

>Is it allowed for a Unicode symbol to be represented by moe than one
>baille character and ifos, is it suitable to do that for mathematical
>symbols?

I doubt there's any such formal rule, and can't think of any good reason not to 
use multi-cell representations.

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