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

[Caryn Navy]

Hello Birkir and all.

With Duxbury DBt you can convert a LaTeX text document or a Word document with embedded MathType objects into braille using a choice of Nemeth Code or several other braille math codes. In the case of a Word document, it can be from Word 2003 or earlier, or from Word 2007 or 2010.

Sincerely,
Caryn

Caryn Navy
Duxbury Systems
Phone: (978) 692-3000, ext. 310
E-mail: caryn at duxsys.com
Web: www.duxburysystems.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson 
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics 
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 10:50 AM
Subject: [Blindmath] Embossing documents with MathML into Nemeth,3 scenarios.


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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