[Blindmath] Typing in Nemeth Braille

[I. C. Bray]

Paul,

YES!  That is the kind of perspective I'm looking for.

So, Parallelling Nemeth with LaTeX sounds perhapslike a place to begin.

When did the student (She? or He?) start learning LaTeX?
Can you give more specifics about how and when, and perhaps why it's not a 
great idea?

You mentioned hang-ups... what have they been?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Chapin" <pdchapin at amherst.edu>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Typing in Nemeth Braille


: When we were looking at how to support a blind student who wanted to major 
in Math, we went through most of the arguments that have been made here. 
However, her first math prof was very strong in urging a latex only 
solution. His argument was two fold.  First, since any serious math major is 
going to have to know latex eventually, it was better to start her off with 
latex from the beginning when the level of complexity is limited than to 
drop her into latex at the advanced level when she'd have to learn it from 
the ground up in one big bite. Second it solves the problem of how to get 
the student's work to the professors. Rather than using Nemeth and then 
going through some gyrations to put it into a format accessible to sighted 
users, the math faculty would simply read the raw latex.
:
: In practical terms it isn't working out quite that cleanly but it is an 
interesting long-term strategy. I have to say as someone who is new to the 
issues, and is sighted, that this all seems way more chaotic than it needs 
to be. I'm just struck by the number of different approaches and the number 
of different steps most of the solutions involve.
:
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