LaTeX2Nemeth and the amsmath package

Abstract

LaTeX2Nemeth is a software package written in Java that converts LATEX files written in the UTF-8 encoding to Braille using the Nemeth standard for mathematics. It has supported more than 800 mathematics symbols up to now and a great amount of mathematics structures from simple exponents to multiline equation arrays. Recently the project attracted the attention of the TEX development fund, and additional support was given to cover the American Mathematical Society (AMS) packages and extended Unicode mathematics support, including all symbols found in unimath-symbols.pdf, to the extent that this is possible by the structure of the Nemeth standard. The current version of latex2nemeth found on CTAN incorporates these additions. If something fails to work and is neither described here nor is a capability of the AMS packages that has only a visual effect (and hence irrelevant to the blind), it should be considered a bug, and it should be reported to the authors as such. As for languages, it supports the Latin alphabet (so English is supported in grade1 Braille) and it also supports the Greek language, both monotonic and polytonic.