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Today’s slides, 5th JEM meeting
Here are the slides of the presentation I gave together with Dònal Fitzpatrick this morning, at the 5th JEM meeting in Paris (2008-11-27):
Impact of ICT on the Teaching of Maths to VIP (Visually Impaired People)
Abstract: The study of Mathematics has always been particularly difficult for blind individuals. Indeed we can observe that a large majority [...]
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odt2dtbook 1.0.1 is available
odt2dtbook 1.0 was released on October 13, the same day as OOo 3.0 official launch. Version 1.0 is quite improved regarding the previous versions. A lot of new features were included. Current release 1.0.1 corrects a number of bugs andis now rather stable.
The list of supported tags is published on odt2dtbook website. Let us say [...]
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OOo 3.0 Launch party in Paris
Last Monday, October 13, the Region Île-de-France had invited the OpenOffice.org community at party for the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.0. The reception was great and the 3 speeches really interesting, which I was not expecting at this kind of reception. I appreciated especially the speech of Louis Suarez-Potts, Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org. [...]
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UMCL: Providing Braille transcription for Mathematical Applications
Over the past decade many applications have been developed to aid visually impaired people doing maths. Unfortunately, most of these applications work with only one Braille code, the one in use in the developer’s country. For example, the support centre of my university recently asked me if I knew of a piece of software allowing [...]
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odt2tbook has just received an award
odt2dtbook has recently received the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Gold Award. This award recognises work carried out with Vincent Spiewak on the development of the odt2dtbook, an OpenOffice.org-writer “export to DTBook XML” extension (see this post). The story was published yesterday on Sun website.
Thanks a lot to the OpenOffice.org community and to Sun Microsystems. It means [...]
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odt2daisy: exporting OpenOffice.org documents to Daisy
odt2dtbook is an OpenOffice.org writer extension, enabling export to DTBook XML (part of the Digital Talking Book specification), including
support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML Modular extension of DTBook.
odt2dtbook is very simple to install and to use. Video tutorials have been designed to provide an easy start to users (installation, use). One shows [...]
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Collecting information about Braille Mathematical Notations
After discussing with Pr G. Weber, from Technical University of Dresden, about the various Braille Mathematical Notations that have been developed, I decided to try to gather information about these them and to publish it here: Braille Mathematical Notations.
These notations are specific codes to write Mathematical expressions in Braille. As Braille is intrinsically linear, and [...]
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