[Blindmath] reading latex

[Sofia Gallo]

Hi

Will it make a difference at all if I get Kurzweil to "scan" the pdf?
E.G. Pressing file > open in Kurzweil?

Sofia

On 8/31/14, Godfrey, Jonathan <A.J.Godfrey at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Given this sort of request pops up fairly regularly, I think it's well past
> time we actually made it practically simple for teachers (like Sofia's) to
> convert their material into a readable document.
>
> About two years ago, I had my documents being converted into XML with
> readable equations using tex4ht which comes with the standard miktex
> installation. While I was working with miktex 2.8, this worked well. There
> is something missing with the 2.9 installation that stops the XML files
> being created though.
>
> It seems likely  to me that someone on this list must know how to get this
> functionality back up and running properly, or already has done so.
>
> Could someone please volunteer. Perhaps one of you working in a Disability
> Support Service office. A good starting point (the one that helped me) is
> the article written by Michael Whapples that appears on the access to
> science webpage. http://www.access2science.com/latex/tutorial_txht.xhtml
>
> If someone wants to help me work on this, then please write off list to
> a.j.godfrey at massey.ac.nz
>
>
> I also want to see if anyone has investigated the pandoc software. This
> might also prove to be another solution worth committing more energy
> towards.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sofia
> Gallo via Blindmath
> Sent: Monday, 1 September 2014 1:50 a.m.
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Blindmath] reading latex
>
> Hello
>
> I have to take a statistics class in college, and my professor says he
> writes all the documents he uses in class using latex and converts them to
> PDF.
>
> Can I read these PDF files using Jaws or Braille? Or is there another tool I
> can get that would allow me to read these files either with Jaws or
> Braille?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Sofia
>
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