[Nfb-science] Question about nemeth braille

[Michael Whapples]

Thanks for that, it confirms the responses I had on the blindmath list.

From
Michael Whapples
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:38 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> The dot patterns for the equal sitn and for the Greek letter kappa are
> the same. However, the equal sign must be preceded and followed by a
> space. That is how you tell them apart. Occasionally the equal sign is
> not surrounded by spaces, as in subscrilts. In that case, the context
> makes it quite clear what is meant.
> 
> John
> 
> followed
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 08:25:57PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > For a few reasons, I have looked a little at nemeth braille, and the
> > code seems understandable to me, but there is one bit that I am puzzling
> > at. From what I have seen of it (when some of my notes have been
> > produced in nemeth rather than BAUK, and when looking at how Alastair
> > Irving's LaTex access scripts are coming on) I noticed that it seems
> > like = and kappa are the same. Is this right, or how are you meant to
> > know what is meant?
> > 
> > Also, one of the reasons why I was looking at nemeth is that I will be
> > giving a talk about maths accessibility for the blind, and I felt as
> > mathspeak (I think) is based on nemeth rules and nemeth has such a
> > following, it could not go unmentioned as a system used. Would anyone be
> > interested in a recording of the talk (if I can get permission for a
> > recording)? The talk will head in the direction of what technology has
> > done for accessibility in maths, what needs to be done to make maths
> > accessible with technology (e.g. mathml rather than html with image
> > equations), and what still needs to be tackled, while covering some of
> > the basics of how maths can be done by the blind. It is going to be
> > aimed at staff (not necessarily any previous experience with the blind)
> > for how they can support students, and where the difficulties may lie.
> > 
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > 
> > 
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