[Blindmath] LaTeX editor

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi,

Yep, it is possible to run Emacs and in all probability Emacspeak under windows as others have already beaten me to say that.

For those interested:


Here are the instructions for installing Emacs on Windows.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/math/ALee/emacs/emacs.html

Here is the appropriate FAQ.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html

Note that MinGW –an open source collection of tools- is recommended by a lot of people for building Emacs package.
http://www.mingw.org/

Slightly old and incomplete Instructions for running Emacspeak under Windows are given on this page.
http://home.vr-web.de/~gerhard.stenzel/emacspeak/install-win32.html

A great deal has change since then.

Here is what the developer of Emacspeak has to say about this topic.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/list.archive.2004/msg00151.html

I haven’t tried to run Emacs and Emacspeak under Windows since I believe that Windows is not the right platform for this.
I am planning to buy a Netbook with Windows 7 on which I will try to run Linux as a virtual machine. 

Regards

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--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] LaTeX editor
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:48 AM
> Hello,
> One editor which is said to be very good (its still on my
> list of want to learn but never quite get round to it) is
> emacs. I know this is very easy to set up and get running on
> linux and I believe it is possible on windows although I
> haven't tried emacs on windows. Also if you do choose to use
> emacs, then may be look at emacspeak (http://emacspeak.sf.net). Emacspeak is meant to be much
> better than using a screen reader with emacs as it is
> working from within the editor and so can gain more
> information about what is going on.
> 
> Alternatively if you want something more windows like then
> try edsharp (I don't have the URL to hand, I think it has
> been mentioned on this list before so try looking in the
> archives).
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On 09/11/09 22:47, Helen Popper wrote:
> > What would you recommend for a blind-friendly LaTeX
> editor?
> > Thanks,
> > Helen
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