[Nfb-science] Duxbury math and MS Word

[j8miller@soe.ucsd.edu]

Hello, this is John Miller.
Brailling using Scientific Notebook
To Braille math equations using the Scientific Notebook software use the
following steps. Using the Math setting in the Insert menu typeset an
equation. Save the file as .tex and open it using Duxbury. Translate and
emboss. The Braille should keep the math notations. Scientific Notebook
5.5 is available for sale from the Duxbury website for $148. It is also
available for free for 30 days.
To insert more equations in a .tex file using TeXaide, the latex free
software, use the following steps. Typeset the equations in MS Word. Copy
and paste the equations in a TeXaide window. Open the .tex file using
notepad. Copy from the TeXaide window and paste into the .tex file before
the final line which contains \end. Save and follow steps above to emboss.
To get TeXaide, simply do a Google search on it, or go to the following
link: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/texaide/
My reader found that selecting MS Word equations was not straight forward.
If an equation contains both regular text and an equation editor object,
doing select all or shift + down arrow will only select the text part of
the equation. In this case, each text fragment and equation object have to
be copied and pasted one by one. It would be preferable to write equations
as all text or all as a single object.