[Blindmath] HumanWare's KeySoft 9.4 for BrailleNote Apex to include NEW Nemeth Braille option

[Susan Jolly]

I was curious about this and the only way I could find to get more details 
was to listen to the archive of a recording of the HumanWare webinar given 
Sept. 26.  I don't recommend doing this unless you need to know the latest 
for their VictorStream and Apex.  I couldn't find any way to avoid listening 
to the entire hour before there was a bit about the new Nemeth option at the 
end.

Here's what I learned about the new option.  When a student is typing a 
default braille document on an Apex, they will be able to enter a new 
special keystroke which inserts a tag into the document to flag a switch to 
Nemeth math.  If speech is on, then what is entered during Nemeth math will 
be spoken using something like Nemeth MathSpeak.  Also, if the document is 
saved as a print Word document, the narrative text and the math will be 
interpreted.  However, the interpretation or backtranslation of Nemeth math 
is only to the Apex ad hoc horizontal or linear math, not to properly 
typeset print math. So, for example, a Nemeth opening simple fraction 
indicator is written in print as "openfrac."  As best as I could tell, they 
failed to include the corresponding closefrac but I may have misunderstood.

It also appears that not all of Nemeth math is covered but just the subset 
of Nemeth math in the Apex Nemeth tutorial that is already available on the 
Apex.

SusanJ