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Braille math codes: | = Background info = | ||
* Nemeth ( | * [http://www.utdallas.edu/~gupta/mathaccsurvey.pdf Math and accessibility survey] -- excellent paper on presenting math in Braille or text-to-speech | ||
* UEBC (Australia) | |||
* British | = Braille math codes = | ||
* Marburg (Germany) | |||
[http://chezdom.net/blog/?page_id=51 Source of information] | |||
* Nemeth (United States, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Samoa. | |||
* Nemeth with modifications for Greek (Greece) | |||
* UEBC (Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria and South Africa) | |||
* British (U.K.) | |||
* Marburg (Germany, Austria, Poland) | |||
* Modified Marburg Braille for Chinese (China) | |||
* Stuttgart (8 dot Braille, used with German Braille, not common) | |||
* Lambda (8 dot Braille, also used as intermediate translation medium) | |||
* French | * French | ||
* Italian | |||
* Spanish | |||
* Japanese | |||
* Bharati code (India) | |||
* Israeli | |||
= Math translation libraries = | |||
{| summary="Braille math translation libraries" width="90%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" | {| summary="Braille math translation libraries" width="90%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" | ||
! Project | ! Project | ||
! License | ! License | ||
! Coded in | ! Coded in | ||
! | ! Input | ||
! | ! Output | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | [http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ liblouisxml] | ||
| LGPL | | LGPL | ||
| C | | C | ||
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| Nemeth, Marburg, British | | Nemeth, Marburg, British | ||
|- | |- | ||
| latex-access | | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-access latex-access] | ||
| | | GPL | ||
| | | Python | ||
| | | TeX/LaTeX | ||
| | | Nemeth. Also does TTS. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| UMCL | | [http://www.ascience.eu/?q=en/finalConf/abstractArchambault UMCL] | ||
| LGPL | | LGPL | ||
| C and XSLT | |||
| MathML, working on TeX/LaTeX | |||
| French (including 3 versions), Marburg, British, Nemeth and Italian | |||
|- | |||
| [http://brltex.sourceforge.net/ BrlTex] | |||
| RPL (Reciprocal) | |||
| Python | |||
| TeX | |||
| British | |||
|- | |||
| [http://code.google.com/p/xtrans/ xtrans] | |||
| | | | ||
| | | Java | ||
| | | HTML | ||
| HTML | |||
|- | |||
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mathtran/ MathTran] | |||
| GPL | |||
| Python | |||
| MathML or TeX | |||
| TeX or MathML (no Braille) | |||
|- | |||
| [http://www.lambdaproject.org/ Lambda] | |||
| Proprietary | |||
| Unknown | |||
| MathML? | |||
| Lambda code, Nemeth and "the most popular European national codes" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | MAVIS/Duxbury | ||
| | | Proprietary | ||
| | | Unknown | ||
| | | TeX | ||
| | | Nemeth, British, UEBC and French | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | [http://www.webelmediatronics.in/wimats.htm WIMATS] | ||
| Proprietary | | Proprietary | ||
| Unknown | | Unknown | ||
| | | Unknown | ||
| | | Nemeth | ||
|} | |} | ||
Latest revision as of 09:04, 14 January 2009
Background info
- Math and accessibility survey -- excellent paper on presenting math in Braille or text-to-speech
Braille math codes
- Nemeth (United States, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Samoa.
- Nemeth with modifications for Greek (Greece)
- UEBC (Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria and South Africa)
- British (U.K.)
- Marburg (Germany, Austria, Poland)
- Modified Marburg Braille for Chinese (China)
- Stuttgart (8 dot Braille, used with German Braille, not common)
- Lambda (8 dot Braille, also used as intermediate translation medium)
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Bharati code (India)
- Israeli
Math translation libraries
| Project | License | Coded in | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| liblouisxml | LGPL | C | MathML | Nemeth, Marburg, British |
| latex-access | GPL | Python | TeX/LaTeX | Nemeth. Also does TTS. |
| UMCL | LGPL | C and XSLT | MathML, working on TeX/LaTeX | French (including 3 versions), Marburg, British, Nemeth and Italian |
| BrlTex | RPL (Reciprocal) | Python | TeX | British |
| xtrans | Java | HTML | HTML | |
| MathTran | GPL | Python | MathML or TeX | TeX or MathML (no Braille) |
| Lambda | Proprietary | Unknown | MathML? | Lambda code, Nemeth and "the most popular European national codes" |
| MAVIS/Duxbury | Proprietary | Unknown | TeX | Nemeth, British, UEBC and French |
| WIMATS | Proprietary | Unknown | Unknown | Nemeth |