[Blindmath] LaTeX

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Regarding BrlTeX, as the author of it, I have to say I feel that project 
has very much reached retirement. From time to time I keep having a 
feeling like may be I should revive it, however I keep feeling that may 
be another approach might be more beneficial (eg. for translation may be 
I should start from an XML based format such as docbook, epub or DAISY, 
and at other times I wonder whether really a more interactive system 
would be more desirable as we deal more with electronic documents from 
the internet than static paper based documents).

Having used plastex for developing BrlTeX, it certainly is an 
interesting package, and is a good starting point should you want to 
develop a La~TeX to some other format convertor.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Tim Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Jamal Mazrui<empower at smart.net>  wrote:
>> In case this helps anyone interested in learning LaTeX, I have posted a
>> collection of text tutorials at
>>
>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/latexdoc.zip
>>
>> Jamal
>>
>>
>> On 8/16/2011 1:12 AM, Lucas Radaelli wrote:
>>> Hello there, LaTeX is not a computer program, it is a markup language,
>>> like html, but in this case, used for writing science materials.
>>>
>>> you can find here something about LaTeX:
>>> http://www.access2science.com/indexMathLanguages.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/8/15, Dasha Radford<Dasha95 at nc.rr.com>:
>>>> I am curious about the LaTeX computer program. I am about to enter an
>>>> algebra class where it might be useful. Could someone explain it's use
>>>> and
>>>> where to find it? If anyone has any other inexpensive suggestions for
>>>> math
>>>> on the computer I would greatly appreciate them.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>   Daria
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> Not sure this is actually on-topic, but I wanted to let people know
> that there is an opensource project called 'plasTeX' that can convert
> LaTeX to DocBook XML. I'm developing the DocBook renderer for that
> project and plan to update the code this fall, although the system
> does work right now. The update will contain code to produce mathml
> from the LaTeX source. Currently math is rendered as PNG images with
> alt text containing the actual LaTeX math markup.  (which I understand
> is useless except for the sighted)
>
> http://plastex.sourceforge.net
> The project depends on a Python distribution and is currently targeted
> towards developers.
>
> Additionally, there is a project based on plasTeX called BrlTeX which
> converts LaTeX to Braille:
> http://brltex.sourceforge.net/
>
> I'm not familiar with BrlTeX so I can't comment on it, I just know of
> its existence.
> thanks,
> --Tim Arnold
>
>