David,
Mathematica 4.0 (http://www.wolfram.com/) has spell-checking and typesetting
by keyboard or from palettes, in both text and input (and automatically in
output).
Extra palettes could be created or existing ones modified to help your
student.
Mathematica will convert its notebooks to TeX (though I have not used this
myself).
And, of course the computational, graphical and programming capabilities
would be available.
Regards,
Allan Hayes
Mathematica Training and Consulting
Leicester UK
www.haystack.demon.co.uk
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pam Bishop <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 13 October 1999 13:55
Subject: software for dyslexia
> Can anyone help?
>
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> From: David Mond <[log in to unmask]>
> Date sent: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:36:46 +0100
>
> We have a first-year mathematics undergraduate with quite severe dyslexia.
> He has a grant to buy a computer and some software to help him with his
> problem. Does anyone know of appropriate software? Is there a PC- or
> Apple- based LaTeX system which incorporates spelling and grammar checks
> that can handle backslashes, dollars and macros, etc? Or is a WYSIWYG
> system more appropriate?
>
> David Mond
> Mathematics Institute
> University of Warwick
> Coventry CV4 7AL
> England
>
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