[Blindmath] questioning on authoring math

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Both LaTeX and chattyinfty are options. Possibly LaTeX would be seen as 
the more serious choice if you were doing a significant amount of math 
authoring and has the advantage that its generally very popular amongst 
mathematicians and scientists so you probably could easily get help with 
it (probably someone within a university, loads of information and user 
groups on the internet, etc). Also the math part of LaTeX notation is 
quite popular for input in other software tools, eg. MathType has a 
LaTeX input mode and many blogs and wiki's will accept maths input in 
LaTeX notation.

Chattyinfty I think probably has a lower learning curve. I haven't 
personally used it but that is the impression I get.

Another option you might want to consider is MathType from design 
science used within word, you can get MathType to toggle between 
equation objects and LaTeX notation. One of the big advantages here is 
that you only need to learn the math part of LaTeX and you can use word 
features (which you probably are familiar with) for the rest of the 
document. One disadvantage is that this will tie you to using windows, 
probably not much of a problem but if you are one interested in Linux or 
Apple Macs then this is possibly is not for you, LaTeX might be a better 
choice.

There are other editors out there such as LAMBDA but I don't know how 
good they are and as you didn't ask specifically on them I won't try and 
answer, I will leave it to others who know those editors better to 
describe them.

As for the infty reader, it I think is about the only working solution 
for OCR of maths, other things are being researched but I don't know 
when they will be user ready.

Michael Whapples
On 18/06/2012 20:01, Nikhil Dama wrote:
> HI Everyone,
>
> I am visually impaired. I have some vision, but it is hard for me to
> use my vision to read material. What is the best way to type math on
> the computer? I heard about latex and chattyimfty. Which do you think
> is the best method? Do you suggest any other method? My goal is to
> write math on the computer and use technology to convert it into a
> format that sited people can read just like regular math notation. Do
> you know any good software that is useful for scanning math notation?
> I know that the imftyreader is good. Is there any other softwares that
> you would recommend for math OCR?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Dama
>
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