[Blindmath] to read laTex

[Ben Humphreys]

Along those lines of replacing more complex tokens with more simple 
ones, one could create dictionary definitions in their screen reader 
so that cryptic Latex commands could be more easily understood, i.e.

\infty becomes "infinity"
\right becomes "right parenthesis"
\frac becomes fraction

Still, the tendency in Latex is to have long sequences of tokens 
inside one another all preceeded by backslashesand surrounded by a 
dizzying number of curly braces and in my opinion, this really 
obfuscates the main concept, which is the equation itself.

I was interested to find "HR Latek" in "Infty Reader" this weekend, 
described as Human Readable Latex.  This sounds like an interesting 
solution but I'm having difficulty finding more information on it, 
such as a translator.

I think for the occasional Latex expression, you learn the meanings 
of the symbols and power through it.  If you're reading lots of 
equations though, a lot of brain cycles could be saved by converting 
to a more simple format, perhaps MathML then using Math Reader in a browser?

Ben

At 06:00 AM 11/28/2011, you wrote:
>Mayank,
>If you can read lateX, you could understand the equations...? I 
>normally just read the lateX source in notepad and use the braille 
>display. Occasionally I'll introduce some shorthand to make it 
>readable, such as doing a replace command to replace \rightarrow 
>with \ra in a document about logic.
>
>What would you want to convert your lateX source to? If we know this 
>someone on the list could probably point you to the right conversion tool.
>Tim
>On 28-11-2011 11:17, MAYANK SHARMA wrote:
>>hi all.
>>
>>I am Mayank, and am doing economics at graduate level.
>>
>>I have  a pretty basic question. I have a txt document where the
>>equations are in LaTex. I am very new in dealing with laTex. I wanted
>>to know from you all how to go about making sense of those equations.
>>is there a particular program I need to instal in order to convert
>>them??
>>
>>will be waiting for your responses.
>>
>>kind regards,
>>
>>Mayank
>>
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