[duxuser] Re: Nemeth Translation
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:18:39 -0000
It's a little late time-wise over here in the U.K. to comment in
detail, but I'd just like to endorse what Birkir says, and in
particular from my point of view with British Braille Mathematics. As
the UK Duxbury distributor, we took the UK's "Braille Mathematical
Notation" and after creating a Word document of it with all 400 or so
example equations input using MathType, and the correct braille
illustrated, we passed the whole lot through DBT 11.1.
While work is still on-going, the results to date produce accurate UK
math well into secondary school level using Word and MathType.
George.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Birkir R.
Gunnarsson
Sent: 22 March 2011 20:58
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Nemeth Translation
Hi
I am sure that Neal or George Bell will weigh in on this with more
precise help.
One way to do this is to have the MathType plug in from Design Science
active in Word (it does cost $97 retail, $57 academic, but many
schools have site licenses).
It works well with DBT v11.1 for producing math, but the math has to
be created using MathType. Behind the scenes it uses a standard
presentation language for math called MathML, and from there it can be
translated to Nemeth, or other braille codes that Duxbury supports.
I do not mean this to sound like an advertizement, but this is truly
the only way I know to accurately produce Nemeth from Word, so others
feel free to correct me.
Link to MathType products page:
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/?src=hpmtc
and here is a MathType Duxbury DBT compatibility page:
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/works_with.htm?target=duxbur
y_braille_translator
(this assumes you have DBT 11.1).
hth
-Birkir
On 3/22/11, Rhonda Sapsford <rsapsford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, I have found that when I am preparing for a math test to be
put
> into Braille and I start in word and open it in Duxbury then hit the
> translate key, no numbers are in Nemeth format and I have to re-do
> each number and so on.
>
> If I write it up in Duxbury and then hit translate it all is in
> Nemeth. Is there a way to write it up in word and have it show up in
> Nemeth? If so please help me as I would prefer to write it up as a
> word document (it's much easier for me to find the symbols I need)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rhonda Sapsford
> JPII Collegiate
> 53 Cimarron Dr.
> Okotoks, AB
> T1S 1T4
> 403-938-4600
> 403-938-5324 (fax)
>
>
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