[BlindMath] College student asking for advice

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Some thoughts on Nemeth and UEB:
UEB is the English Braille standard going forward, and with it the
mathematics code. If you care at all about writing in Braille with others,
UEB is definitely the better choice as time goes on. That said, you'll
probably be the only person to read and write Braille mathematics, using it
as a working code for yourself then translating to something like LaTeX for
sighted consumption, so it doesn't particularly matter if you write in UEB,
Nemeth, GS Braille [1], or some personal code/shorthand of your own design
as long as it's understandable to you.
The way I like to compare UEB and Nemeth is that the latter packs more
information into each cell, which is valuable in environments with limited
space like refreshable Braille displays, while the former is more consistent
and debatably easier to parse. I personally find UEB easier to work with
than Nemeth, but I'm not a heavy Braille user.
I'd start by looking at bits of these UEB [2] and Neemeth [3] tutorials and
seeing which system gels better with you.

Bill
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner%E2%80%93Salinas_braille_codes
[2] https://uebmath.aphtech.org/
[3] https://nemeth.aphtech.org/
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Subject: [BlindMath] College student asking for advice

Hi Katie,

The answers to some of your questions depend on which country you are
planning to attend college in and also if you are planning to live in that
same country after you graduate.

Since you mention Nemeth as a possibility I will start by assuming you are
in the USA.  In any case, Nemeth math is more appropriate than UEB math if
you are interested in computer science.   Also it is structured much more
similarly to MathML.

Best wishes,
Susan Jolly


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