[Blindmath] producing Nemeth math as a blind person

[nlibre at gmail.com]

I use 6-key entry with Duxbury for Nemeth and LaTeX and it works very
nicely.  I also use Perky Duck a lot when I'm not on a computer with a full
version of Duxbury.  That also works just fine.  In addition to the
software, you have to make sure that the keyboard you are using supports
6-key entry.  There are keyboards that will not support it.  For example,
two weeks ago, I was working with a university student on a project for his
transcription class and he did not have access to a Perkins Braille writer
on campus but assumed that he could use Duxbury because it was installed on
the DSP lab computer with JAWS.  When he started having trouble entering the
symbol for "t", I checked and realized that it was the keyboard.  Since it
was a Sunday, of course there was no one with administrative rights to the
computer to try and adjust settings or install Perky Duck to check if it
might work with the keyboard.  Even the keyboards were locked to each
computer so we could not swap keyboards and try to trouble shoot it that
way.  Fortunately, I had my laptop with me and we just used Perky Duck on it
and transferred the files for embossing.

Nicolás

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lori
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:29 AM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: [Blindmath] producing Nemeth math as a blind person

Hello all:

I used Nemeth math all through school so I'm familiar with hand brailling 
it, however, I'm wondering if there are electronic methods that a blind 
person can use. Is something like scientific Notebook accessible for someone

who is totally blind? What equipment and technology is out there that is 
accessible to blind people. Also, if you are handed a print worksheet is 
there a program to use to scan and put into braille that is accessible to 
the blind?

Thanks,
Lori


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