[Blindmath] dlmf and screen readers

[Neil Soiffer]

Minor clarification:  simple-speech-base.tdl is up one directory level from
ClearSpeak-en.tdl

Neil Soiffer

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Neil Soiffer <soiffer at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> This is a bug in MathPlayer when interpreting the combinatorial notation.
> Thankfully, it is an easy fix to make:
>
> Change to a directory like C:\Program Files (x86)\Design
> Science\MathPlayer\Rules\en (the path may be slightly different depending
> on your machine).
>
> If you are using ClearSpeak, open the file ClearSpeak-en.tdl in your
> favorite text editor (e.g., notepad). You probably need to change it from
> read-only to writeable. Look for the line containing "linethickness".
> Change that line from
>    count(match)==3 && name($1)=="mfrac" && $1.linethickness==0 )
> to
>    count(match)==3 && name($1)=="mfrac" && ($1.linethickness=="0"  ||
> $1.linethickness=="0pt") )
>
> If you are using Simple Speech, do the same for simple-speech-base.tdl.
>
> It's not a bad idea to change both files just in case...
>
> This is not a perfect fix, but it does make it work for the way dlmf
> generates this notation.
>
> Neil Soiffer
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Łukasz Grabowski via Blindmath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Digital Library of Mathematical Functions has some mathematics
>> resources in mathml, but so far I am not able to read it with NVDA
>> correctly. For example:
>> http://dlmf.nist.gov/1.2
>>
>> The very first equation  1.2.1 which defines the
>> binomial coefficient is not spoken at all. Does it work fine for some
>> NVDA users?
>>
>> I'm using Windows 7, Firefox 48, NVDA 2016.4 and newest mathplayer
>>
>> Best,
>> Łukasz
>>
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