[Docutils-users] rst2braille - HTML- or native writer?

[Leo <fha...@go...>]

I am interested in preparing text files for embossing on paper rather than
preparing text for refreshable Braille displays the latter being procured by
API's such as at-spi (Gnome), Java Access Bridge or MSAA (Windows).

The main task of a braille writer would be to generate a plain text file
that is neatly formatted. OK, you could generate this from HTML. But this is
probably even more difficult and error-prone. - The text files sent to the
Braille printer need to be fully formatted with spaces at the beginning of
indented lines, page numbers, headers and footers, footnotes, hyphenation
and all those language-specific details such as contractions, different char
sets etc. So we would not gain much with an HTML version.  Conversely, I
could imagine that some rst extensions introduced by rst2pdf would be useful
for Braille as well.

Any thoughts on this?