[Blindmath] La tex editors

Tue Jan 20 20:15:21 UTC 2015

Hello Jon, Ishe, Daniel and Joe:

Thank you all for your replies. I have been reading and researching the
links you collectively provided.

There are two constraints I'm keeping in mind here. 1) My student is fluent
in nemeth braille, and 2) does not have a lot of time to learn latex as
classes have already started.

Ultimately, his wish is to learn latex. This will not be hard for him since
he already knows a couple of programming languages and is technically
adept. Given that his statistics class is an intro level class, and most of
the equations in it use fairly low level symbols (sigma, for example), I am
wondering if Nemetex might be a good place to start?

Nemetex allows Nemeth Braille input, save as .txt, import into Nemetex,
back translate into LaTex via Nemetex, and save as .tex. From there, open
the .tex file and make edits if desired, save as .pdf and share with
sightling professor.

The thing is, nemetex suggests downloading the distribution MikTex and
downloading the front end TexNic center. I'm guessing it recommends these
because they are free. I'm just wondering if the preferred distributions
and front ends suggested by you all would work with Nemetex? (This assumes
I can get my university to pay for two additional products on top of
Nemetex). I'm also a little confused by your responses, as some of you are
using for your editing spaces what I would call distributions/engines,
others are using front ends, and still others are using packages.

To recap, the recommendations have been:

1) AucTex (free) plus emacs. AucTex is a package, rather than a
distribution or a front end or engine...?

2) MikTex (free) as distribution, with TeXnic Center (free) as front end

3) MikTex (free) as distribution, with WinEdt (not free) as front end

4) and finally, TextPad, which I can't tell if it's a distribution, engine,
a front end, or what. I'm assuming a front end since Joe mentions a call
line command. Where does this command go or pull from?

As you can see I'm new to all this. I am learning from TUG and am following
their definitions for Distribution (or what I think of as softwares), front
ends (which I think of as editors), Engines (which I think of as
translation packages), Formats (the languages or codes you write in),
Packages (nice add ons for different flavors of typeset, additional
symbols, etc, etc)

Is there a set of softwares that float to the top for this particular
student and situation? Keep in mind that he's starting with knowing Nemeth
Braille all the way to calculus levels, and definitely wants to learn
latex, but needs a nice soft entry into this since he can't drop everything
else and pursue latex learning except along the way. He's a graduate
student with a full load.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Pielaet, Jon via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I have been using AUCTeX<http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/> with Emacs<
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>/Emacspeak<
> http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> Although it is native to GNU/Linux, it also works in Windows and Mac OS X.
>
> Speech-enabled emacs is very powerful, not only does it support LaTeX
> editing and coding, but it also includes features for email, music
> playback, newsgroups, and an organizer.
>
> The emacspeak LISP scripts include features for working with google docs,
> reading ePUB books, and Bookshare titles as well.
>
> It can pretty much do anything.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joseph
> C. Lininger via Blindmath
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:23 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] La tex editors
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>
> I'm a TextPad user myself. I have the editor set up to call a command
>
> line LaTeX typesetter. There are probably setups that have more bels and
>
> wistles, but it works for what I need it to do. I use that editor for
>
> pretty much everything, actually. Programming, LaTeX editing, even
>
> reading electronic texts.
>
> Joe
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