[Blindmath] LaTeX and Math

[Paul Wright]

Hi All,

Without reopening the LaTeX debate, I find that LaTeX is superior for
"just math." 

Anyway, I agree that BibTeX is a great package to know about.  Also, I
would really recommend Beamer, especially with the increasing importance
of visuals in presentations. 

Michael:  I've thought a lot about LaTeX and accessibility.  If you'd
like to converse more, I'd be happy to communicate with you off list.

Best,

Paul

 
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:34:45 +0100
From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] Useful LaTeX packages: suggestions welcome for
        ICCHP   summer university workshop
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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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  Paul Wright
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Maryland
  http://www.math.umd.edu/~paulrite