[Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Sat Aug 18 14:36:42 UTC 2012

I'm sorry, George, but the last e-mail I saw before replying was 
from Caryn.  I am relatively new to listservs, and so I'm not 
sure exactly how it all works.  Anyway, thank you for the advice.

Regards,
Daniel

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george at techno-vision.co.uk
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in 
mathematics"<blindmath at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:06:16 +0100
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

Hi Daniel,

I'm not Caryn, but work closely with her.

I suspect your flash drive issue is more of a local one.  Perhaps 
you
have it set to view specific file extensions as opposed to files 
of
all types.

If you tab down to the File Name: field, and then one more, you 
will
find a button which in fact is a drop down list.  Down arrow on 
that
button and you should see one for "All Files (*.*)".  This should
then show files as well as folders of all types.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-
bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: 18 August 2012 00:52
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType and Duxbury

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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