[Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Daniel danielgillen at rcn.com
Thu Aug 16 17:55:02 UTC 2012


Hello,

I'm Daniel Gillen, a totally blind entering college freshman.  
For those of you who have been on the list for quite a while now, 
you may remember my e-mail that I sent out about which program 
might be a better solution for translating math into a Braille 
document through Duxbury.  I have since installed MathType, and 
tried to translate a Word document containing math text into a 
BRF file which I can read on my BrailleNote's Braille display.  
What I first did was select the "Convert Equations" option from 
the MathType tab on the Word 2010 ribbon menus.  I tried 
converting "MathType and Equation Editor Equations" to "Text 
Using MathType Translator" before importing the document into 
Duxbury using the "BANA Nemeth" translation scheme.  However, in 
place of the intended math chunks (equations, expressions, etc.) 
in the Duxbury document), all I saw were the XML tags (the coded 
text strings enclosed by angle brackets <>).  Could anyone please 
give me any tips on how I can properly translate equations in a 
Word document into Nemeth Braille through Duxbury, assuming that 
MathType is the program used to render those print equations in 
the first place?

Thank you,
Daniel




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