[gs-devel] Ghostscript Driver for a Braille Printer

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

Hello,

Thanks both of you for your interest and advice.  I am currently looking
into using IJS as a means to segregate out the non-GPL parts of the
driver and will keep the list updated as to the progress I make.

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 00:02, Ralph Giles wrote:
> > The back-end would be similar to many others.  It is primarily going to
> > be used for printing input generated from LaTeX documents that have been
> > processed to use a braille font.  Later on, I hope to experiment with
> > other formats such as converting LaTeX to XML (in an effort to make the
> > maths more accessible).
> 
> Ok, if you're using a braille font then you can use raster output, and
> don't need high-level access to the text being printed? If so, you have
> more options.

That's certainly true for the first part of the project, in which I am
concentrating on getting LaTeX printed in a very direct manner.  Later
on I'll be looking into getting equations converted into other, more
accessible, formats.  This /may/ need higher-level access but at the
moment all I need is to process the raster into a form that the core
binary driver can understand.

best regards,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>