[bksvol-discuss] Re: Update on math heavy texts
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:36:02 -0500
Kellie,
I see what you mean. The bookshare tool for Braille translation has a lot
to be desired. The engineers are working on it.
Sue S.
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From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Update on math heavy texts
Hi Soronel,
I didn't get past trigonometry as far as math goes, but there were braille
signs for every math symbol I ever learned. I never had to invent my own
code the way I did for linguistics. I just am pretty sure that the
translation tool for Bookshare doesn't have the facility for calculus and
beyond. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. If the translator
recognizes certain signs, like less-than or greater-than, it will actually
write it out in words. I can't imagine what it would do with things like "is
not equal to" or "Is less than or equal to" etc. There are signs in braille
for the Greek letters and trig functions. You usually learn the symbols
gradually as you tackle each mathematical concept.
Hope this was explanatory and at least relatively interesting,
Kellie
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