[Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Daniel danielgillen at rcn.com
Fri Aug 17 23:52:07 UTC 2012


Dear Caryn,

Thank you so much.  I was able to translate a Word document 
containing equations into Braille format.  However, I am not sure 
if this is relevant, but I am quite new to Windows 7, and when I 
tried to open the Word document on my USB flash drive, I was able 
to view both files and folders when opening from Windows 
Explorer, but only folders when opening in Duxbury.  I am not 
sure how I can solve this discrepancy, namely, be able to view 
files in the flash drive's root directory within the Open dialog 
box in Duxbury.  I will be starting college very soon, and I 
would like to be able to solve as many problems and glitches as 
possible before professors send me documents which I must 
translate before they are readable.

Regards,
Daniel

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Caryn Navy" <caryn at duxsys.com
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in 
mathematics"<blindmath at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:54:06 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Hello again Daniel.

Here’s one more note.  When opening a Word document with 
MathType objects in DBT, there’s no need to choose the DBT 
template called BANA Nemeth in order to get braille using Nemeth 
Code.  In fact, use of that DBT template is intended for a Word 
document that was created using the Word template called BANA 
Nemeth.  You can choose any DBT template marked as English 
(American) to get braille math in Nemeth Code.

Please feel free to contact me off list.

Sincerely,
Caryn

Caryn Navy
Duxbury Systems
Phone: (978) 692-3000, ext.  310
E-mail: caryn at duxsys.com
Web: www.duxburysystems.com
From: Caryn Navy
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:52 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

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.comTo get braille math in Nemeth Code, 
you can choose


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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