danj1@ihlpz.att.com (Daniel Jacobson) (03/07/91)
Index Number: 13823 = [This is a recording.] The following netnews may interest you. No = feedback to me is necessary unless you are getting overloaded with = these forwarded articles. The views below are not necessarily = endorsed or even thoroughly read by me [except if I wrote them = myself]. Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM [This is from the comp.text.tex newsgroup] from: raman@elli.cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) date: 25 Feb 91 20:24:02 GMT organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY In article <1991Feb25.170722.4504@irisa.fr> delaunay@irisa.fr (Christophe Delaunay) writes: |Hi! | |In article <1991Feb22.201926.9560@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) writes: |>In article <1991Feb21.163517.6563@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: |>> |>>A friend asked me: |>>Does anybody use TeX to transcribe mathematics into braille math ? |>> |>>But I'd be interested to learn on any use of TeX with Braille, |>>particularly in conjunction with mathematics. |> |>There does exist a Braille font for TeX. I think it is just PK files |>at 300 dpi, which may mean that it is derived from some other |>font format, not done in Metafont. The bad news is that I can't |>remember where I saw it. It was a listserv in Germany, perhaps |>dhdurz1, but perhaps not. Could anyone be more specific? |> |>As I recall, the font was not a math font, but text. |> |>Dominik | |Sure. I obtained this package from our local TeX specialist but I don't |know where he got it from. The package he gave me is compounded of |three files: two font definition files and a ".sty" file for printing |the text in a correct Braille format. Problem: The version I have |doesn't seem to translate LaTeX math symbols into Braille ones. I'm |interested by this package to print LaTeX documents into Braille for me, |(I'm blind), and a small group of blind and non-blind people. |Personnally, I like LaTeX for making my document because, in "normal |cases", I don't have to worry a lot about my document presentation. By |normal cases, I mean text documents and no slides, graphics or some |letters that need a special presentation. It's much easier for me to |make nice looking documents with LaTeX than with other text processors |like troff, Word5 or Wordstar. The Braille font will allow us to print |a same document either in Braille or in an ordinary format. The |package I have seems just fine for us because we don't often need math |fonts. The problem is that I couldn't experiment it yet because we |have a Braille printer but we are looking for a PC! I was told that we |may have one soon. | |Christophe. e-mail: delaunay@irisa.irisa.fr Could you send me more information about the files you speak of? What exactly can these files generate given a complicated tex document? Does it generate simple grade 1 Braille, or does it know about grade 2 contractions etc? I would be interested in any information people could give me about this or any related subject. I use a talking terminal to interact with my computer, and also Braille for class notes, but personally use Braille very little. --Raman | T.V.Raman | | 311 Sage Hall Ex:5-7626 || 4155 Upson Hall Ex:5-5565 | | Email: raman@macomb.tn.cornell.edu || raman@cs.cornell.edu | | Centre for Applied Mathematics || Department of Computer Science |