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

[John J. Boyer]

Braille material does not have to be embossed. Many people prefer using 
a Braille display. An embosser is necessary to produce tactile graphics. 
When a full-page braille display becomes available many peo9ple will 
prefer it for that.

TSS uses the liblouis and liblouisxml software, which can translate 
MathML to Nemeth and other Braille math codes. ViewPlus is also 
sponsoring BrailleBlaster as the open source successor to TSS. 

John

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:50:35PM +0000, Birkir Gunarsson wrote:
> 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
> 
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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