[Blindmath] PDF to xhtml

[Maurizio Gabelli]

Thank you guys!
And, any good and simple latex to xhtml software?
Maurizio

2015-11-25 15:17 GMT+01:00 White, Jason J via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org>:

>
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 07:14, Abi James via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > As suggested getting hold of the LaTeX source files is much better as
> PDFs a
> > generally difficult to extract back to an accessible format. If you do
> try
> > to use a convertor of PDF  to html check how they deal with the
> equations.
> > If the math is converted to MathML or LaTeX it will be editable and
> probably
> > accessible (depending on  the browser and A.T. you are using) but many
> > convertors default to image output for equations.
>
> In my experience, PDF files generated by LaTeX don’t preserve the Unicode
> values of the characters used, including mathematical symbols. Instead,
> what you get upon converting to text reflects the position of the character
> glyph in the font rather than the Unicode code point.
>
> The result is that non-ASCII characters such as mathematical symbols are
> unreadable upon conversion.
>
> LaTeX does not create tagged PDF, though I understand that ConTeXt can.
> Tagged PDF is much more accessible, as it preserves document structures.
> Adobe tools under Microsoft Windows can interpret the structure, and there
> was a project underway to enable Evince under Linux to do likewise, but I
> don’t know how far this software development effort has progressed. The
> Preview PDF reader under Mac OS X cannot recognize the structural tags.
>
> The best solution is always to obtain the LaTeX source file and work from
> there, rather than to attempt to convert a PDF file.
>
> I find LaTeX to be a superb format for writing and editing documents. If
> conversion to a greater variety of formats (HTML, EPUB 3, Microsoft Word,
> etc., in addition to PDF) is desired, I usually write the document in
> Markdown format and use Pandoc (http://www.pandoc.org/) to convert it.
> Pandoc supports a subset of LaTeX mathematics, but I haven’t had any
> experience with it as I am not writing mathematical material.
>
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