brailcom/speechd

Support orca's mathsymbols.py

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#1,038 opened on Jul 22, 2025

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Description

Joanmarie would like to get rid of orca's mathsymbols.py (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/313), and it does indeed belong to speechd.

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Study the mathsymbols.py module from Orca, understand its dependencies, and plan how to integrate it into speechd's Python bindings or as a separate module. Check for existing similar modules in speechd and ensure proper testing.
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