[Blindmath] Math Type formulas in ppt files

[Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson]

Sarah

If your professor uses Math Type in Word he can export the Word
document as MathPage, which will be a .xht file (.xhtml). The trick
with MathPlayer is that it only works with Internet Explorer at
present (you may want to uninstall, and reinstall it, the current
version is 2.2 which has improvements over, e.g. 2.1D).
You should be able to emboss the Word document in braille with Nemeth,
at least with ViewPlus, and I think you should be able to do this with
Duxbury as well, I will inquie about it.
So, to recap:
Export math type equestions to a Word document.
Save the Word document as Math Page, both document text and Math Type
formulas are exported to a single .xht file that you can open in IE
with MathPlayer and should read just fine (of course this does not
solve the problem of graphs).
>From the same Word document (before it is exported as MathPage) you
should be able to emboss it using one of the pgorams above.
Give it a try and see if this works for you.
I hope MathPlayer will support Word nd/or PDF/Powerpoint in future, it
would do away with the extra step and simplify the process.
Thanks and good luck.
-Birkir


On 11/20/10, Sarah Jevnikar <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Thanks Alastair,
> I'll do some googling and find out.
> Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Alastair Irving
> Sent: November 20, 2010 11:28 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math Type formulas in ppt files
>
> Hi Sarah
>
> I believe that Mathtype supports conversion either into MathML, which
> you can then read with Mathplayer, or LaTeX, which can then be read
> directly.  Its some time since I used mathtype so I can't tell you how
> to actually perform the conversions, maybe you'll have to convert to
> Microsoft Word first.
>
> Alastair
>
>
>
> On 20/11/2010 14:57, Sarah Jevnikar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> My professor posts lecture slides online using math type for the formulas,
>> saving them as powerpoint and pdf files. Is there anything I can do with
>> these files to make them readable with JAWS? He's offered to convert them
> to
>> Microsoft word; would this help? I have Math Player, but have never been
>> able to get it working. I also have dbt 10.4.
>> Any suggestions?
>> Thank you,
>> Sarah
>>
>>
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