[Blindmath] Making Mathtype documents in Word accessible

[Neil Soiffer]

Yes, it is horrible.  There is a feature request to improve it and that is
being looked at for MathType 6.8, but no decision has been made yet as to
whether it will make it into 6.8 (there are lots of competing requests).

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stacey
<andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no>wrote:

> The first thing that I want to say is that is the most awful LaTeX that I
> have
> ever seen!  If that is what the process produces as it's LaTeX "output"
> then
> I'm not surprised that you are looking for another system.
>
> That said, this does look like the sort of thing where my system might be
> able
> to help as the idea behind it is to convert LaTeX to "something else" by
> using
> LaTeX itself to do the conversion.  So all that would need doing is for
> someone to tell LaTeX that you want, say, \int to be written as "Integral"
> and
> then you could run LaTeX on the equations to convert them to something
> suitable.
>
> This would take a bit of work to get to work properly, though, as, for
> example, LaTeX likes to run on whole documents, not snippets.  Also, it
> would
> need considerable configuring at the start.
>
> As Neil's suggested another way that is working for you then I don't
> recommend
> this.  I mention it in case there are others for whom Neil's method
> wouldn't
> work.
>
> Andrew
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