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From: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX and Braille
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.201926.9560@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Feb 91 20:19:26 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.163517.6563@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
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In article <1991Feb21.163517.6563@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>
>A friend asked me:
>Does anybody use TeX to transcribe mathematics into braille math ?
>
>But I'd be interested to learn on any use  of TeX with Braille,
>particularly in conjunction with mathematics.

There does exist a Braille font for TeX.  I think it is just PK files
at 300 dpi, which may mean that it is derived from some other
font format, not done in Metafont.  The bad news is that I can't 
remember where I saw it.  It was a listserv in Germany, perhaps
dhdurz1, but perhaps not.  Could anyone be more specific?

As I recall, the font was not a math font, but text.

Dominik