Re: Math in Word, Maple Notation (Was: Complexity Math in PDF)
- From: Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:50:24 +0300
Hi Peter,
The name Maple rings a distant bell somewhere, I think some folks have
been using it for audio DSP, at least. At any rate, is there a demo of
Maple or an on-line manual in which the notation it uses could be
learned?
I do know our lecturer is a former mathematician, so he'd probably be
much more comfortable dealing with Maple notation rather than yet
another ad hoc ASCII notation. All actual computation I need to do at
the moment can be handled with a simple expression evaluator or a
programming language, so I brought up Mathematica et al only due to
their notation. We're basically talking about simple proofs of algorithm
complexity and correctness mostly based on induction and common sense
rather than, say, Turing machines.
Although some of the PDF metadata does Read Power Point the original
files used are actually Word docss in which the formulae are done with
the equation editor. I managed to get copies of those files simply by
asking for them. With Wordpad it only says inserted object on an
equation, though. Viewing in Word 97 simply says gap, with SN8.02.
OPening the thing up in the equation editor does let you read it through
but the blinking focus disturbs speech, at least with SN8.02. Are
equations in modern versions of Word more accessible in Jaws? I'm using
Supernova and WOrd 97 since it does all I need and 97 is here much
faster than 2003. I can have access to even the latest Office versions,
though, should they bring about accessibility improvements.
--
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila
Peter Torpey wrote:
>
> You asked about Mathematica.
>
> Well, I am a blind physicist and have needed to do complex symbolic math.
>
> I must say, I've never figured out a good way of dealing with the PDF type
> of documents you wish to read, but if you're doing your own math, equations,
> etc., I found mathematica almost impossible to use with Jaws.
>
> The program which I found to be very accessible (and used all of the time)
> is Maple (www.maplesoft.com). Although the Java interface they are pushing
> into their new releases is somewhat clumsy with Jaws, the Classic interface
> is very accessible with Jaws. I have found this program very useful.
>
> Maple is rather a costly program (> $1,000, although there may be a less
> expensive version for students).
>
> An open source math program which you can obtain is macsyma. This runs
> fairly well with Jaws (although I haven't played around with it much). I
> found this on sourceforge.net.
>
> One other neat little program for which I developed scripts and had the
> original developer tweak a bit to work well with Jaws is called QD
> Accessible. This little program runs on the PacMate and does all sorts of
> symbolic math, derivatives, solving symbolic equations, as well as doing
> numerical math. I placed the program, scripts, and some documentation I
> wrote on the Pacmate Gear web site so that folks could download it if they
> needed it.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> -- Pete
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