[Blindmath] Capital letters in MathType equations?

Tue Jan 17 21:13:00 UTC 2017

Only the English capitals are set to raise their pitch in the default settings (by 130%), so if you are looking for a pitch-change in Greek or other alphabets, that won't happen under the current speech rules, and you will need to set the Caps_saycaps.eqp preference from within MathType to get the "cap" speech.

That is, the usual way to set a preference is to open MathType to create or edit an expression in order to have access to the preference settings. Instructions for setting preferences are in the Authoring tutorial located at the following link: http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/default.htm#authoring_guides, which contains links to a Word document (http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/ClearSpeakAuthoringTutorial.docx) and video instructions.

The short version of what you need to do is as follows (assuming you have the preference files installed):

1. Open MathType on a new equation or on one for which you wish to change the speech
2. From the MathType menu, select Preferences, Equation Preferences, Load from File
3. Navigate to the location where your speech preferences are stored, and select Caps_saycaps.eqp. In the dialog box you will probably want to check "use for new equations." It is also often advisable, before setting a preference to first select the "clear_preferences" preference to make sure that no other preference file is potentially overriding your choice. If you set a preference without first clearing preferences, and the preference you set doesn't take, try going back and clearing preferences first, then set the desired preference.

If you do not find the Caps_saycaps.eqp among the speech preferences, you may need to download and extract the files located here: http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/AllEQPFiles.zip. Extract them to any location you like, and then when you select "Load from file" you will go to the location where you have saved the files.

If you have a document in which you wish to change ALL equations to say "cap" for capitals, I believe you can also make the change globally by going to the Word MathType ribbon, selecting "Format Equations," selecting the "MathType preference file" radio button, browse to the caps_saycaps.eqp preference, and then select "whole document" to apply to all equations in the document or "current selection" otherwise.

Please see also Neil's BlindMath posts from January 9 on the topic.

Neil, did I miss anything?

-----Original Message-----
From: Aqil Sajjad [mailto:aqilsajjad at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:27 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Cc: Frankel, Lois E
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Capital letters in MathType equations?

I appreciate all the responses on the reading of capital letters. I need some more clarification though since I am not able to get it working. Also, the responses seem to suggest that the default mode should be to read capital letters with a pitch difference. But by default, I am not getting any pitch difference in equations, even though the same speech synthesizer is giving a very clear pitch difference in regular text.
Is there something I could be missing? Alternatively, is there a document with clear step by step instructions on where I can find the relevant math type settings? When I go to the Math type tab in word, I can't find any settings on capital letters.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frankel, Lois E via Blindmath" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics"
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Frankel, Lois E" <lfrankel at ETS.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Capital letters in MathType equations?

> Speech for capital letters in MathPlayer is governed by two
> preference-settings in MathType:
>
> Caps_Auto is the default and should use a pitch-change to indicate the
> capitals. However, not there may be voices that do not handle pitch-change
> commands well.
>
> Caps_SayCaps will say "Cap" before each capital letter.
>
> This information is pulled from the document:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/ClearSpeakRulesAndPreferences.docx,
> which describes all ClearSpeak conventions used by MathPlayer.
>
> Preferences for math expressions are set by MathType. Instructions are
> here:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/default.htm#authoring_guides
>
> If you do not find the relevant preferences in you installation of
> MathType, you may also need to download and install them:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/AllEQPFiles.zip.
> Instructions for the installation (which simply involves extracting the
> files to any location you like) are here:
>
> http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/ies-ets/instructional_material/default.htm#authoring_guides
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aqil
> Sajjad via Blindmath
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 3:45 PM
> To: Blind Math
> Cc: Aqil Sajjad
> Subject: [Blindmath] Capital letters in MathType equations?
>
> I am using NVDA to read MathType equations in MS word. I also have
> MathPlayer installed. NVDA is not reading capital letters differently from
> lower case letters. This is happening for both Greek and English letters
> inside equations. Is there a solution?
>
>
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