[BlindMath] Duxbury and LaTex

[Caryn Navy]

This is a follow-up note of clarification, just in case I raised some 
concern with my previous message.


While DBT now supports Nemeth Code in UEB context, it also still 
supports the Nemeth Code that is familiar to so many of us. You can get 
your Nemeth Code how you want it.


All the best,

Caryn


On 2/11/2019 9:57 PM, Caryn Navy via BlindMath wrote:
> Hello Aqil.
>
>
> Since I am part of the team developing and maintaining the math 
> capabilities in DBT, I imagine you would prefer  hearing from someone 
> else. I do not have the information to compare the tools in DBT for 
> LaTeX to Nemeth conversion with any other tools. But I will try to 
> answer your first question.
>
>
> I think that in general DBT does a good job of converting LaTeX to 
> Nemeth Code. Over the years we have done our best to be responsive to 
> problem reports that have come to us.
>
>
> For LaTeX formatting, DBT's LaTeX importer does its best to convert 
> the important formatting commands to the equivalent braille format and 
> to filter out the rest.
>
>
> Here are a few examples of recent changes in DBT's LaTeX importer and 
> in support for Nemeth Code.
>
>
> We have adapted DBT's LaTeX importer for creating Nemeth Code in UEB 
> context, using the UEB start and end Nemeth indicators where needed 
> but not using them in other places.
>
>
> We have made it much more straightforward to get Nemeth Code for 
> technical notation in non-English documents.
>
>
> In DBT 12.4, the most recent DBT version, we have added initial 
> support for several braille math codes from around the world that are 
> new to DBT. To go along with that, we added support for LaTeX in UTF8 
> documents containing characters outside of ASCII. This makes it 
> possible to import LaTeX files containing European languages with 
> accented letters, Russian text, Arabic text and so on. As a side 
> effect, this fixed some other issues. For example, it fixed a problem 
> that a user found when his hand-coded English document used an em-dash 
> instead of a hyphen.
>
>
> LaTeX importing is also part of the fairly new DBT for Mac.
>
>
> This all helps to make the DBT LaTeX importer more flexible.
>
>
> Please feel free to contact Duxbury with specific questions about our 
> LaTeX importing and support for Nemeth Code.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Caryn
>
>
> Caryn Navy
>
> Duxbury Systems, Inc.
>
> Email: caryn at duxsys.com
>
> Phone: +1 (978) 692-3000, ext. 310
>
>
>
> On 2/11/2019 2:43 PM, Aqil Sajjad via BlindMath wrote:
>> How is Duxbury when it comes to translating LaTex to Nemeth? Can it 
>> give a clean translation to Nemeth without all the unnecessary 
>> clutter and formatting commands that make reading 
>
>> How is Duxbury when it comes to translating LaTex to Nemeth? Can it 
>> give a clean translation to Nemeth without all the unnecessary 
>> clutter and formatting commands that make reading LaTex cumbersome? 
>> How are other ways of converting from LaTex to Nemeth?
>>
>>
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