[BRLTTY] braille displays as well as braille maths

[Jan Mura]

Hello

I study Mathematics at University. I work together with sighted woman, 
my teacher.
But she know nothing about math Braille.
So now we used Latex, i typed formulas Latex and she understand and can 
read it.
I think with Latex you can be almost as good as your mates, but must 
practice it.
E.g.
x square over cosine x+ half pi  lookks like:

\frac{x^2}{\cos {\frac{\pi}{2}}}
 So you can think about this.
It depends, whether you read Braille  by your fingers  or Latex by your 
ears faster.
I'm not very good in reading and typing Braille, so prefer Latex. In 
this case i need no  display.
I'm not sure which Braille system for maths you use, there unfortunately 
many of them. I believe Nemeth code can have a table in Brltty, but I 
use czech maths, thus I have to use Braille display only with JAWS.

Jan Mura
jan.mura at volny.cz
Daniel Dalton napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering the purchase of a Brailliant braille display,
> manufactured by Baum I believe. A few questions:
> 1. What are the advantages to this display over the braille note? Just
> the fact it is smaller, lighter and just a braille display? I know the
> battery life is also much better.
> 2. Is bluetooth, serial and usb connections supported by brltty with
> this display.
>
> Another few questions I have, I'm doing high school maths at school, and
> considered the idea of having all my braille  maths on computer, not in
> a braille text book.
> 1. Is the use of a brf file the go here? Or am I best of with a word
> document or something? I was sent a brf file today and it looks very
> good. I'm still interested to hear any thoughts on this though.
> 2. How should I write my answers, so they can be read by my teacher? I
> have been suggested latex -- what are your thoughts? Is latex a good
> option, is it efficient to use will I be on the same playing field as my
> sighted mates? Or is a word document in openoffice or just plain text or
> something the go? 
> 3. The class are learning to use the CAS calculator next year, what is
> the best solution to this? Are there any good cas calculators available
> on linux that I could muck around with? I believe they are putting in
> quadratic formulaes and witnessing a parabola drawn on screen, but I may
> be mistaken.
>
> A final question, I will be moving around all day, between 6 and 7 class
> rooms a day on average, is it practical to carry a braille display with
> me and set it up? As in I probably have 1 minute to get my stuff out and
> ready. Perhaps not even that and the same time to pack up. So if I used
> a bluetooth connection how much mucking around is there to get things
> working? Basically is this setup practical in an environment, where I am
> moving every hour?
>
> I would be interested to hear any thoughts for any of this, so I can at
> least start playing around with some of this stuff.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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