[Blindmath] LaTex to Nemeth?

[Mary J Ziegler]

Hi,

I recently joined this list to learn ways to better ways to make math accessible to blind students at MIT.    Today, I have a very specific question:

What's the best path to convert a LaTex document to Nemeth Braille?   We have both Duxbury and the Tiger Software Suite, but neither seems to be able to translate the LaTex to Nemeth.   Is it possible with one of these applications?   Both mention the use of either Scientific Notebook (Duxbury) or MathType (Tiger): is there a way to do it through those applications?

FYI - While our long term goal is to have our students learn and read LaTex directly, as it's used widely here anyway, for students that are not up to speed on LaTex and already read Nemeth, I'd like to be able to emboss in Nemeth.

Can anyone advise me on what's doable here, and, if yes, how?

Thanks in advance,
Mary

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Mary J. Ziegler
Team Leader,  Accessibility and Usability
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
ATIC Lab Room 7-143
617.258.9328
maryz at mit.edu