Shérab <sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Mario Lang (2011/06/01 16:26 +0200):
>> Yes, you're unfortunately right, while the table format is roughly
>> the same (not identical AFAIK), the contents seems to be quite different
>> and maintained by separate people.  I just checked this for the german
>> grade 2 contraction, which has indeed been developed
>> completely separately from the version I wrote for brltty.
>> 
>> That said, the liblouis version is definitely better regarding
>> exceptions, so I will have to sit down and attempt a merge
>> of the good ideas from liblouis's table.
>> 
>> Its kind of said to see so much duplicated work though.
>
> Agreed. Before any merge is attempted, shouldn't we discuss the
> possibility that both brltty and liblouis use the same table format ? Or
> even better, that brltty uses liblouis to contract braille ?

I think this is sort of a well known and old problem.  As I remember,
liblouis actually evolved from what brltty uses internally.
Regarding using liblouis directly, which sounds good of course, I am
guessing that brltty uses some low level functionality that liblouis
might not export?

-- 
CYa,
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