[Blindmath] sci notebook and duxbury woes

[George Bell]

Another commercial contributor here.

As many here already know, my company work very closely with Duxbury,
and here in the UK, faced with resolving the production of Math
braille, were introduced the MathType by Birkir.

However, we also support many users in Africa where math is often not
taught, simply because producing math braille has been so difficult.

Working closely with Duxbury and braille math experts, great
improvements were many to the translation of MathType into Duxbury
over the last two years or so.

I should say that up until then, we had been using Scientific Notebook
(S/N), but MathType had many advantages which we felt made it more
beneficial.  To start with, the Education price was around one third
of that of S/N.  The amount may not seem significant, but in the 3rd
world, it was a major issue.

MathType works directly inside Word for Windows, which is still
commonly used and so is a familiar starting point when you are having
to produce support which we do.

Producing large print math from Word/MathType files is extremely easy.

And equally importantly, speaking as a dealer cum developer, Design
Science have been extremely supportive and helpful all round.  I
cannot emphasise this point enough.

George Bell
Managing Director
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
76 Bunting Road Ind. Est.
NORTHAMPTON
NN2 6EE, U.K.

Tel: 0160 479 2777
Fax: 0160 479 2726

e-mail: george:techno-vision.co.uk
Web: http://www.techno-vision.co.uk



-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Birkir R.
Gunnarsson
Sent: 10 September 2012 22:17
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] sci notebook and duxbury woes

Is Scientific Notebook still being maintained and sold? I thought it
was very good a few years back, but it has not been updated or
maintained for some time now. I may be totaly wrong, but would be good
to know this for sure.
MathType does its thing pretty decently, I can attest to that, and it
is probably the quickest/simplest interface with mainstream math
editors (i.e. Word with MathType), though of course it's all about
people finding out what works for them, and then going with it.
Cheers
-B

On 9/10/12, Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com> wrote:
> Apologies for the commercial self-interest, but no one else chimed
in...
>
> An alternative is to leave the document in Word, get MathType (which

> my company makes), and export to Duxbury from there.  Duxbury has 
> supported that option for the last few years.  You can get a 30 day 
> free trial of MathType from www.dessci.com, so you can easily/freely

> try it out and see if it solves your problem.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation
Editor 
> ~
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Lewicki, Maureen
> <mlewicki at bcsd.neric.org>wrote:
>
>> Folks, I  receive Microsoft word files from teachers, which I bring

>> into Sci Notebook to prepare for Duxbury. The formatting gets
messed 
>> up, and there is a lot of computer lingo on teh bottom. To me it 
>> looks like 2010 and SN is not compatable. Does anyone have this 
>> problem?How did you get around it?
>>
>> 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 
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