[Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

[Caryn Navy]

Hi Daniel.

I’ll add a quick comment to go along with Bob Mathews’ reply.

When you have a Word document containing MathType objects, you just open the document in DBT. Don’t use MathType’s Convert equations option first.

Sincerely,
Caryn

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


From: Bob Mathews 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:14 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics 
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Hi Daniel,

The best place to start when learning how to use MathType with DBT is
with our article on the subject:
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/MathType/works_with.asp#!target=duxbury
_braille_translator

It's pretty descriptive, but if you have any difficulty with the
process, please let us know.

Regards,
Bob Mathews
Design Science

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:55
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

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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