[Blindmath] Writing Math

[I. C. Bray]

John,

does becoming a beta tester require us to have MathType already?
What should we have before we inquire?  Got any hints / suggestions?

Ian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gardner" <gardnerj at onid.orst.edu>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 11:36 PM
Subject: [Blindmath] Writing Math


: This list has been amazingly fertile lately with information about new and
: ever better technologies for reading math.  Michael, do I understand that
: one can input Nemeth into Safari as well as output it?  That would be 
pretty
: amazing.
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: This is a good time to bring you all up to date on LEAN Math.  I just 
posted
: a new beta version and hope to have a final release before end of 2013.
: LEAN is a general interface to math for use with audio or braille screen
: readers.  It was developed to provide a convenient way to write and
: manipulate math, not just read it.  In principle LEAN is useful for any
: authoring system that can input and output MathML. Version 1 is an 
interface
: to MS Word+MathType.  I went that route because it is the most popular
: scientific authoring application in the world.
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: LEAN should be very intuitive.  Function keys act as pull-down menus for
: math symbols and expressions.  There are also hot keys for most popular
: items such as inserting a fraction or a square root, or a table, an
: integral, a differential, etc.  These are inserted from the Function Key
: menus or hot keys, and place markers indicate where you are to insert - ie
: the numerator and denominator of that fraction, etc.  LEAN was developed 
to
: be extremely convenient for people using speech, but it works in braille
: too.
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: If you'd like to join the beta test, send me a note.
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