New on CTAN: latex2nemeth
After many failed attempts to transcribe real math notes and books to Braille/Nemeth in order to deal with a real situation (blind student in Math Dept.) we decided to develop a new program that follows a direct, from LaTeX to Braille/Nemeth, approach. Other attempts (such as tex4ht) failed because they all needed an extra step to go from xml to Braille and this step (say, with liblouis) produced incomprehensible output (liblouis focuses in Office apps). Our main target was the Greek language which is only Braille level 1, but English at level 1 is also supported. Simple pictures in pstricks are also supported in order to produce tactile graphics with specialized equipment. The README file contains documentation and links to the project pages. License is GPL3 or newer. At the moment this is the only project we are aware of that has published real Math University Notes and Books in Braille. Check http://myria.math.aegean.gr/labs/dt/braille/index-en.html Embossing needs LibreOffice and odt2braille so that we do not need to deal with embossers' drivers.
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex2nemeth The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex2nemeth/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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Latex2Nemeth – Convert LaTeX source to Braille with math in Nemeth
After many failed attempts to transcribe real math notes and books to Braille/Nemeth in order to deal with a real situation (blind student in Math Dept.), we decided to develop a new program that follows a direct, from LaTeX to Braille/Nemeth, approach.
Our main target was the Greek language which is only Braille level 1, but English at level 1 is supported as well. Simple pictures in PSTricks are also supported in order to produce tactile graphics with specialized equipment.
Note that embossing will need LibreOffice and odt2braille as this project does not deal with embossers’ drivers.
What’s new in version 1.1
In this version, the support of the user level commands of the amsmath package was added, as described in its user guide, with the exception of commutative diagrams (amscd package) as well as structures that are irrelevant to visually impared persons.
Also, the Unicode mathematics symbols of the unicode-math package that are represented by the Nemeth code are now supported by latex2nemeth.
We would like to acknowledge support by the TUGfund for this project (TUGfund project 33).
| Package | Latex2Nemeth |
| Version | 1.1.3 |
| Copyright | 2016–2022 Andreas Papasalοuros, Antonis Tsolomitis |
| Maintainer | Andreas Papasalouros Antonis Tsolomitis |