Susan; I am now ready to go forward with this in more earnest! Are you still available to chat about the current state and the work that was done? -Kevin
> On Nov 1, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Susan Jolly <easjo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > My name is Susan Jolly and I am the person who originally got Eitan Gurari > interested in braille back in 2000. I am a sighted retired computational > scientist and became interested in braille after my retirement because it > had been a hobby of my father's. Because of my background in science and > math, my main interest is in braille math. Eitan was working on forward > translation of print, especially math, to braille, while I was > simultaneously developing software to translate from Nemeth braille math to > MathML. Although we communicated frequently via email, we unfortunately > never worked together on the same software. BTW, Eitan's children also sent > me his computer files but I was not able to recover any of his braille work. > > I am very knowledgeable in English literary braille (having written both > forward and back translators) and Nemeth braille math (back translator only) > and can accurately proofread English and math braille, preferably in an > ASCII transliteration but also as simulated braille and with this email am > volunteering any help I can provide to the persons on this list who want to > support automated braille production. > > Even though I do all my braille work as a volunteer, I would course need > institutional support in order to properly test and manage any software to > be released to the public. The following page describes a proposed alpha > test of my software and includes links to additional pages with detail about > my software. However, this project has been on hold since 2009. > http://www.braille2print.org/backnem2.htm > > Please feel free to communicate with me privately as well as on this list. > I am very happy to answer any questions about braille or braille software or > to at least point > you in the right direction. > > Sincerely, > Susan Jolly > Los Alamos, NM, USA > www.dotlessbraille.org > > > > . >