[Blindmath] LaTex to Nemeth?

[John Gardner]

Hello Mary.  As Michael Whapples has pointed out, Duxbury can import 
only fairly simple Latex.  My advice is to buy the Tex2Word application 
available from
http://www.chikrii.com/products/tex2word/about/
for about $50 and use it to convert Latex to MS Word format.  Equations 
are converted to MathType equations, and these documents will then be 
translated by either Duxbury or the Viewplus TSS.  As founder of 
ViewPlus of course I would advise you to use TSS.  If you have a modern 
update, the Nemeth btraille should be really excellent.  Direct any 
complaint to me.

The Tex2Word software does a pretty good job of transforming Latex from 
such things as Arxiv.  Latex that uses personal or obscure macros will 
probably need to be expanded before they will transform, but that will 
be true for anything that inputs Latex and outputs something else.  We 
ran some fairly demanding tests a few years ago and were very impressed 
by the quality of transformation.  If there are minor errors, they will 
be obvious in the Word document and can be fixed before the braille 
translation step.

Good luck.

John Gardner

On 8/27/2009 12:09 PM, Mary J Ziegler wrote:
> 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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