[access-uk] Re: Writing mathematical formulae

If you have reasonable sight unnaided or with magnification such that you don't 
need much speech the MS Word Equation editor should do the job well enough.  
Latex will be accessible to the extent that it is a document markup language, 
you can wirte your Latex code in any plain text document editor and then 
compile it.  The Latex route a really good one (it is what is used for 
publishing mathematical and other engineering scientific papers) but has a 
higher learning curve than Word's equation editor because the later is 
graphically driven for non-experts to work with.
Those with very long memories will remember a specially adapted (I think Sharp) 
number in the 80s but RNIB certainly used to have a talking scientific 
calculator a few years ago I would enquire with the RNIB shop as a starting 
point.

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Emma Wright 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:59 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Writing mathematical formulae


  Dear all,

  As I explained in an earlier email, I'm partially sighted and thinking
  of taking an AS level maths course.  I'm currently trying to work out
  how I am going to write mathematical equations as I can't read my own
  handwriting.  I've had various suggestions, including: MathSpeak (a
  program you talk to and it turns maths into characters on screen);
  LaTeX; and equation editor in Word.  Does anyone have an experience of
  using any of these and how accessible they are, or do you have any
  other suggestions?

  Emma

  -- 
  Emma Jane Wright
  School of Sociology and Social Policy
  University of Nottingham

  emmajane9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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