SwiExr: Spatial math exercises and worksheets, in Braille and print
Nandan Bagchee, Eitan M. Gurari · 2005
L A TEX is a highly expressive authoring language considered to be the lingua franca of the mathematics community. Yet, until recently, except for a few contributions concerning long division, it oered very little support for expressing planar layouts of problems that employ elementary mathematic operations. We present a highly configurable tool [2] (written in Java) for producing spatial representations of elementary math exercises and worksheets. The available configurations produce verbatim and tabular forms of exercises and worksheets in print and Nemeth Braille formats for inclusion in LATEX, MathML, HTML, and text files. In addition, they ensure Braille output entirely equivalent to material prepared in print formats. Our current attention is devoted to the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and root operations. We are interested in identifying potential users from the LATEX community with the objective of developing widely acceptable LATEX interfaces for requesting math exercises and worksheets. 1 General background