There have been a few requests to support braille input. It's a new direction to take MathCAT but one which has been on my radar for a few years.
Handling braille input would most likely would be done via a parser. Susan Jolly suggests using a ANTLR 4 parser-generator... at least for back translation of Nemeth. Rust has ANTLR support, although it depends on a nightly build (seems to depend on CoerceUnsized which seems to be moving towards stabilization) and there. There are many other parser generators written in Rust ANTLR doesn't work out.
I suspect implementing support for braille input of other braille codes would work well with this kind of parser approach also. If someone knows otherwise, please comment below.
I have opened this issue as a place to gather requirements, potential solutions, and feedback from others as to what braille languages for which they would like to see support.
As an example of requirements: what should the output be if the braille doesn't make sense? What should it be if it is partial input? For example, there is a start fraction indicator but nothing is after it? What if there are both start and end fraction indicators, but no fraction line indicator?
There have been a few requests to support braille input. It's a new direction to take MathCAT but one which has been on my radar for a few years.
Handling braille input would most likely would be done via a parser. Susan Jolly suggests using a ANTLR 4 parser-generator... at least for back translation of Nemeth. Rust has ANTLR support, although it depends on a nightly build (seems to depend on
CoerceUnsizedwhich seems to be moving towards stabilization) and there. There are many other parser generators written in Rust ANTLR doesn't work out.I suspect implementing support for braille input of other braille codes would work well with this kind of parser approach also. If someone knows otherwise, please comment below.
I have opened this issue as a place to gather requirements, potential solutions, and feedback from others as to what braille languages for which they would like to see support.
As an example of requirements: what should the output be if the braille doesn't make sense? What should it be if it is partial input? For example, there is a start fraction indicator but nothing is after it? What if there are both start and end fraction indicators, but no fraction line indicator?
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