[Blindmath] The Nemetex Back-translator

[Sarah Jevnikar]

That's a good point; I had a Braille lite 2000 and then a pac mate when I
started to use Nemetex, so I just found it easier to type all my work in
plain text (computer Braille for all text, nemeth for the math), save it as
a .txt file, and then use the translation process from plain text to LaTeX.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Susan Jolly
Sent: September 23, 2010 1:34 PM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] The Nemetex Back-translator

Nemetex is designed to backtranslate Nemeth braille that has been produced 
on a braille display in a particular manner.  Math expressions must be 
tagged as computer braille in the manner supported by the braille display.

Backtranslation occurs in two steps.  In the first step the display's 
built-in backtranslator for Grade 2 braille text is used to automatically 
backtranslate the text (i.e. untagged) portions of the braille file. This 
translator doesn't modify the tagged math expressions.  In the second step 
the Nemetex software backtranslates the tagged math expressions to LaTeX.

Having the user explicitly tag math expressions makes backtranslation much 
simpler as it can be quite difficult for an automatic process to distinguish

Nemeth math from Nemeth text.

SusanJ 


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