[Blindmath] Embossing documents with MathML into Nemeth, 3 scenarios.

[Birkir R. Gunnarsson]

Hello everyone

I truly believe this to be the last question for some time, but I want
to be sure I am presenting the right facts on this to students.
Ideally a student would get the Word with MathML document to emboss,
and has ViewPlus or Duxbury, plus an embosser to do the deed, but what
of the other eAccessible options:

1. XHtml with MathML (poplar format for MathPlayer). Can this be
embossed directly through either TSS or Duxbury? If not, how
successful is the necessary transformation (I would imagine opening
the document in Word and embossing it from there).

2. A Daisy book with MathML. How difficult/easy is it to emboss
document with embedded math from this?

3. A Text document containing LaTeX. Can it be converted directly to
Nemeth (I believe so with both DBT and TSS), rather than having to go
through Word/MathType or LaTeX to MathML convertion first. I belive
that DBT actually uses LaTeX as the basis for its Nemeth convertion
and converts MathML to LaTeX before converting to Nemeth, though I may
be wrong.

I don't have access to an embosser currently, so I can't try these out
for myself.
However, I know frequent users and employees monitor this list, so
feel free to give me answers or just point me to relevant web sites (I
have a lot of this info already in any case, but just wanted to give
people a chance to comment on their experiences).
-B