[Blindmath] Magnified or Screenreader-magnifier enabled LaTeX editors.

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hi all,

One of the beauties of LaTeX is the fact that we need not confine ourselves
to a particular editor tailored to LaTex if we don't want to.

I've experimented with several standard options (all mentioned by others on
the list) but always come back to just using a plain notepad window for the
editing of my files and then using a batch file to compile the document. I
also wrote a wxPython script up to create a text editor to do many things I
wanted in an editor, but then found that almost everything I had thought to
use was already part of Texnik Center. (I enjoyed the programming experience
though!)

Once miktex is installed on a window machine, the command line becomes an
option for compiling the document. Anytime  I am told to use a command line,
I put the command into a batch file instead. I've been able to tap into some
useful resources over the years to improve the batch files approach so that
I don't need to specify the actual document names, but the simplest batch
file would have four lines in it - three of which are the same. (Just change
the argument for the commands to be the file to be processed.

pdflatex <DocumentName>
pdflatex <DocumentName>
bibtex <DocumentName>
pdflatex <DocumentName>

If you don't need the bibtex step for citations, then only the first two
lines are necessary.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr Rachel
K. Holdforth
Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2012 4:42 a.m.
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] Magnified or Screenreader-magnifier enabled LaTeX
editors. Also Screenreaders/Magnifiers enabled for Mathematica.

Dear All,

I'm supporting a visually impaired student who needs to use LaTeX to write
reports for her postgraduate Mathematics degree, and who is also likely to
need to use Mathematica next year.  She has some useful sight and currently
uses ZoomText under Windows to access documents.  However she is finding
LaTeX editors a bit tricky, is there a particular LaTeX editor which users
of this forum would recommend for a visually impaired student?

Also, she hopes to go onto do a PhD next year and will then need to use
Mathematica, do you know if Mathematica and ZoomText are compatible, or is
it better to use something like SuperNova?

With thanks.

Rachel Holdforth

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Dr Rachel Holdforth
Needs Assessor
Cambridge Access Centre


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