[Blindmath] Useful LaTeX packages: suggestions welcome for ICCHP summer university workshop

[Tim in 't Veld]

Michael,
Graphics drawing is the first advanced workshop I'd think of - and I am 
also wondering if there may be some packages to easily create graphs / 
charts / trees in your document, never got around to investigating this 
yet.
I am also wondering if there is an alternative to the pdflatex output. 
The pdf files that generates are not accessible, Word does a better job 
at creating accessible PDF even though lateX should contain more 
information which would allow accessible PDF / HTML / mathML creation.
See you at the SU,
Tim
On 7/7/2011 1:38 AM, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> Latex for just math isn't that useful, although with MathJax and with what
> I'm going demo when using Word, it does have some use.  Still, using LaTeX
> really does mean there is a lot to learn and it is usually easier to learn
> it from an expert like yourself rather than figure it out from manuals or
> websites.
>
>      Neil
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com>  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Neil, that I have to say is really useful for those at university
>> and such like, however may be a bit far from the Maths so I may question how
>> long to devote to it.
>>
>> I think one of the things which could be said about my workshop last year
>> was that it didn't focus heavily on the mathematics side of things.
>> Unfortunately LaTeX as a document system requires so much other stuff to
>> make it useful for people that it sometimes can make the maths part seem a
>> bit of a side issue. Its probably a balance I am going to have to work hard
>> to get right in these workshops (IE. too much of just the maths stuff and
>> then it isn't really useful, too little of the maths stuff and then its
>> questioned why I am giving it at something like the summer university).
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 20:41, Neil Soiffer wrote:
>>
>>> You should probably cover something like bibtex.  It's kind of boring,
>> but even my 7th grade son is told he needs to cite sources for material, so
>> showing how to do that and build up reference databases is something you
>> can't get started too early on.
>>>      Neil
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I will be giving the LaTeX workshop at the summer university event. While
>> I have plans for the more basic ones which are to introduce people to LaTeX
>> (either for using it in other software or as the full document authoring
>> system) I have also been asked to do a more advanced one for those who know
>> some LaTeX and may want to know more. My thought is to cover some really
>> useful packages. However the issue is deciding what would be useful for
>> people who already know some LaTeX?
>>> So may be those of you who use LaTeX could give me some suggestions on
>> packages you find really useful or packages you just keep intending to learn
>> but never quite get round to learning.
>>> Some of my own thoughts include: Covering a package like beamer, however
>> coverage of this might be brief as it is not really mathematical but rather
>> to demonstrate that those who know LaTeX can produce presentations in LaTeX
>> and get many of the great features they appreciate about LaTeX (obviously
>> including the ability to easily add good looking maths notation). I also was
>> planning to cover some graphics drawing packages, may be something like
>> pstricks (I might find an alternative which works better with pdflatex) and
>> the gnuplottex package for including gnuplot plots. I would intend to devote
>> more time to packages which are much more relevant like the graphic drawing
>> packages.
>>> My plan is probably to cover two or may be three packages in total in the
>> workshop. How many packages I can cover depends on how much detail I go
>> into.
>>> Now over to you for your suggestions.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples
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