[Blindmath] accessible math websites

[Michael Whapples]

I haven't ever used troff and having a quick look I feel the greater 
readability of the LaTeX command names makes LaTeX more pleasant to work 
with. It probably was that the person who I met who used troff probably 
learnt it before LaTeX really became popular and may never have moved on 
to learning LaTeX.

The popularity of LaTeX compared with troff is a big reason to go with 
LaTeX, how many websites use LaTeX in the alt tags for equations and how 
many use troff?

My reason for raising troff was to say LaTeX is not the only thing, and 
to add to that now, LaTeX may be some day replaced by another system 
like troff has been replaced by LaTeX for most users.

Michael Whapples
On 16/03/09 19:36, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> troff (with its equation part "eqn") has been mostly obsoleted by TeX.  I'm
> sure there remain some diehard users.  It has no accessibility advantage
> over TeX and involves the same basic model of writing text and compiling it
> to produce something that can be viewed.  Since TeX is so much more widely
> used and supported, I would not spend time learning trying to learn it (I'm
> old enough to have used it before using TeX).
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> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, WebEQ, Equation
> Editor ~
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