bugtex4ht - Bugs: bug #339, remove/rewrite braille code

 
 
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bug #339: remove/rewrite braille code

Submitted by:  Karl Berry <karl>
Submitted on:  Sun Oct 30 16:59:00 2016  
 
Category: NonePriority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 5 - NormalStatus: None
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Tue Nov 1 17:23:01 2016, comment #2:

ok, i guess there is nothing to do after all. dunno ... thanks.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Mon Oct 31 08:51:30 2016, comment #1:

I didn't even knew there is a braille support in tex4ht :) I know that it supports EmacsSpeak and JSpeech, I am not sure how relevant these are these days and I doubt that this support is complete.

I've done some Liblouis testing really long time ago:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/32685/2891
and it seemed that it works on my sample document, I am sure one would face many issues with real world documents. But what kind of document it expects other than unicode xhtml with mathml? I have impression that it should be supported, from my reading of the manual. What might be missing in usual tex4ht output are xml:lang attributes, it shouldn't be hard to add them with some configurations for babel. Again, I am not sure if Liblouis even support that :)

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Oct 30 16:59:00 2016, original submission:

Antonis Tsolomitis tells me that the Braille support in tex4ht depends on liblouis to convert tex4ht's XML output to Braille. and liblouis does not work with our xml, and won't (they said their target is Office). Ditto for LaTeXML's XML output.

Therefore it seems we should remove or completely rewrite our Braille stuff, instead of having code that does nothing useful.

Antonis and others have written latex2nemeth (http://ctan.org/pkg/latex2nemeth) as another tex parser that outputs braille directly, since they had a blind student they needed to support right away.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator

 

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