Hello, Not much reaction on this issue for now :)
Samuel Thibault, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 19:56:54 +0100, wrote: > - device-dependent drivers, which are basically simple shell scripts or > C files, which don't depend on anything beyond bash and libc > > - device-independent filters, which are able to convert documents to > braille. This part can make more or less use of liblouis, imagemagick, > antiword, etc. to be able to turn documents into nice braille printing. I'm thinking: the device-independent filters don't strictly depend on all of that: they at least do support raw text conversion so at least printing text will work. When printing non-pure-text, we could make the filters emit advices to users through the error messages, e.g. "liblouisutdml-bin package missing for braille translation". That way, users will have embosser drivers ready for testing, and will immediately get advices about how to get further in a very logical way. It then becomes a tasksel matter about what translation tools should be preinstalled on a default Debian desktop system to provide at least basic document printing support. Samuel
