[Blindmath] Math Type formulas in ppt files

Tue Nov 23 18:05:17 UTC 2010

Hi Sarah,

I was watching this thread and had no idea where to enter. I like the fact that whenever a member needs help, emails start pouring in from every part of the world. As an example, you got replies from Iceland, US, and India (excluding me)!
The list use to be quite subdued back when I use to look for help.

Now for your problem, have you found a method that works for you?
Here is my suggestion that has nothing to do with MathML since MathML has already been discussed enough.

This can be done either by you or your professor depending on who is interested in playing with MathType.

1.	Transfer the content to a single Word document.
2.	Select all.
3.	Press the Toggle TeX located in the MathType tab or press Alt + Backslash.

If all goes well, this will convert MathType equations into LaTeX and you can put the document through your DBT setup to get Nemeth…?

Regards

Sent from my iPod Touch

--- On Sun, 11/21/10, Sarah Jevnikar <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> From: Sarah Jevnikar <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math Type formulas in ppt files
> To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Sunday, November 21, 2010, 12:10 PM
> Hi Birkir and all,
> I sent Birkir's instructions to my professor who returned
> the following
> file.
> 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12727315/MathTypeSample1.xht
> 
> It looks strange to me, but is there something I'm
> missing?
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> Sarah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
> Sent: November 20, 2010 4:34 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math Type formulas in ppt files
> 
> 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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