[Blindmath] Math type question

[John Gardner]

Hello Marureen, you are right that the person preparing the graphics needs
to know what she is doing.  Math books contain a lot of line art - ie
graphs, etc, that are relatively strightbord to make tactile.  But they
often have others, such as colored charts, etc.  By default Tiger embosser
embosses dots according to gray scale intensity, and this is sometimes not
quite adeaute - as for example in a pie chart when adjacent colors are
qually gray.  Dick Baldwin's discussion is very interesting on this point.

J Gardner


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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lewicki, Maureen
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:56 AM
To: 'john.gardner at orst.edu'; 'Blind Math list for those interested in
mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math type question

Thank you  John, you make it sound easy! Will the graphics be good? Perhaps
it is the person preparing them but my student has trouble with them, and I
sometimes pull out the mylar paper, and aluminum paper instead! 

Page number question: a transcriber will paginate the pages as 1, 1a, 1b, 2,
2a, 2b, 2c, etc, then indicate the page break by putting a thick line across
the page, and at the right margin write the new page number. Our Duxbury
does not do that, as someone I think eluded to in a recent email. Is there a
way to set it such that it would?

Very grateful for this email list!!

Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Teacher of Visually Impaired
Bethlehem Central Schools
(518)439-7681
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in
our life, or in the life of another." Helen Keller 


-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of John Gardner
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:43 AM
To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math type question

Maureen if you have a Tiger embosser and the software that is bundled with
it, you already have enough equipment to produced a braille book.  But use
MS Word and not Scientific Notebook to prepare the material.  

Write text as usual without fancy formatting, write math with MathType, and
it should translate just fine with TSS.  I suggest putting graphics on
separate pages and make them as big as possible.  Put text in text boxes at
very large font size - say 32 point, and the braille will translate and
should fit into those boxes.  

That's it.  

John Gardner

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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lewicki, Maureen
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:43 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math type question

Folks what do you think! Do I have enough technology to produce a book in
Braille, including all the graphics?
This is what I have: tiger scientific notebook, Duxbury, Romeo pro 50, and
spot dot. I can download the QuickTac.  I need a 7th grade matchbook. Would
I be Pablo to produce the same quality materials that a certified nemith
transcriber would? Toe book costs thousands. Your opinions are appreciated.
Sent from my iPad

On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:30 PM, "Denise Reno" <dreno1 at phasd.us> wrote:

> Oh, so maybe someone can tell me how to use page numbers in the tiger 
> suite,when I translate the number all become "1". Please help.
> Denise Reno
> Braille Transcriber
> PHASD
> PHASD
> 
>>>> Jose Tamayo <jtblas at hotmail.com> 2/14/2012 1:14 PM >>>
> I have tested the conversions of MathType and have had one instructor 
> prepare entire book chapters using MathType which I then used Tiger 
> Software Suite to get into the Nemeth Math I require!
> 
> There are some gotchas which I have to dig up but there is someone on 
> this list that is the guru on the Tiger Software Suite and can provide 
> very excellent details.
> Regards,
> Jose Tamayo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Whapples
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:12 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math type question
> 
> Hello,
> As well as DBT, you could use the tiger software suite which can
> translate
> MathType equations into Braille (I believe Nemeth and UK Braille are
> supported as well as dots plus).
> 
> Michael Whapples
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bente Casile
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:28 PM
> To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math type question
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  Let me preface this by saying this may have already been discussed
> but I
> can't remember.  Can math type be converted to braille or does it have
> to be
> converted to LaTex and edited to go into Duxbury?
> 
> 
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