-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Jolly Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Blindmath] LaTeX or Nemeth?
This is probably a good time to point out that I'm just announcing the alpha test of my free BackNem backtranslator which backtranslates Nemeth text and math to MathML. (BackNem is a command line backtranslator written in Java and should work on any OS.) There are also at least four separate commercial organizations in the US that are working on similar capabilities. Here are the links to instructions for participating in the BackNem alpha test and to samples of the output. http://www.braille2print.org/backnem2.htm http://www.braille2print.org/samples.htm MathML can be displayed automatically by the FireFox browser or by Internet Explorer with the free MathPlayer plugin installed. You can use FireVox or MathPlayer to proofread the math via text-to-speech. Sighted persons who use FireFox should check out this page which compares the FireFox rendering of math with that of LaTeX. (I find the FireFox rendering at least equally attractive.) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml MathML can also be converted to LaTeX. While I think that it can be useful to be familiar with LaTeX, it is much more important for braille users to be able to read, write, and understand math in braille. I hope that the availability of accurate Nemeth backtranslators will be of value to braille-using students as far as improving their mathematical abilities. Backtranslation also provides an independent check on automated forward translation done by sighted transcribers who don't know Nemeth. SusanJ _______________________________________________ Blindmath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
