[Blindmath] Results of Using the Perkins

[Jose Tamayo]

Hello Susan,

Thanks for your response.  Experience has thought me, in my limited
knowledge base, that something that is simple for one is not necessarily
simple for another.  My lack of experience in this area forces me to pose
questions that have simple answers.  As I expand my awareness in this
context, I am sure I will be prepared to pose questions and scenarios that
are much more engaging.  Frankly, I am glad that we have you on this list
because we sometimes need to be told that we are making things more
difficult than they really are.  I understand your points and I am becoming
aware of solutions I had not been exposed to prior to now. 

How does one convince a University professor to read information in the
manner which you propose.  My previous math instructor frankly did not have
the time to learn a new system.  Some of my work was translated through
Nemetext  and then to print math but I had to do all the proof reading and
someone sighted had to look at my work before turning it in.  This
introduced severe delays for many different reasons.  I welcome your
responses.

Respectfully,
Jose Tamayo 




-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Susan Jolly
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:26 PM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Results of Using the Perkins

Let's leave speech out of this.

Let's say you want to enter a mix of braille text and Nemeth braille math
that a sighted person can read.

Here's one way to to do it on a notetaker.  Enter the text in uncontracted
braille except use the dot-7 capital letters on your notetaker instead of
using capitalization indicators and the computer braille punctuation marks. 
For example, enter dots-46 for a period.

Enter the correct braille cells for Nemeth math.

Proofread and edit your braille file as necessary.

(You can also do the same thing from a regular keyboard.)

Save the file as a "plain braille" file.  Do NOT convert it to a print file.

Send the file to a sighted person to display in Word or their favorite
editor using any standard print font they want.

They will immediately be able to read the text since it will look like
regular text to them.  If they spend 15 minutes studying my page I've linked
to before, they will be able to read the Nemeth math as ASCII characters. 
This is a lot easier than reading LaTeX source.  If blind people can learn
to understand  LaTeX source then sighted people with no knowledge of braille
can certainly learn to understand Nemeth math displayed in ASCII instead of
being converted to fancy print math.  Here's the link once again:
http://www.dotlessbraille.org/readnem.htm

I do not understand why everyone is making something so basically simple be
so complicated.

SusanJ 


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