[Blindmath] converting a textbook in LaTeX to MathML

derek riemer Derek.Riemer at Colorado.EDU
Tue Jun 14 21:47:56 UTC 2016


Are there packages to do macro replaces though?


On 6/14/2016 2:53 PM, Neil Soiffer via Blindmath wrote:
> You might want to give LaTeXML a try -- it's meant to convert an entire
> document: http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML. It translate the math to MathML and
> supports a number of common TeX packages. But as someone mentioned, if they
> have custom macros, all bets are off.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Neil Soiffer
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Tara Robertson via Blindmath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> We need to produce an accessible version of an math textbook. Thankfully
>> it's Creative Commons licensed and I hope that the authors will respond to
>> my email and voicemail begging for their LaTeX files. To date we've only
>> produced math textbooks from the hardcopy and our workflow looks like this:
>> bit.ly/mathML We have both Infty Reader and MathType.
>>
>>
>>
>> By doing a quick search of the list archives and the internet I've found a
>> few ways to convert small snippets, but I'm looking for a way to convert a
>> whole textbook.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have software or workflow recommendations?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tara
>>
>>
>>
>> Tara Robertson
>>
>> Accessibility Librarian
>>
>>   <http://www.caperbc.ca/> CAPER-BC
>>
>> 604.323.5254
>>
>>   <mailto:trobertson at langara.ca> trobertson at langara.ca
>>
>>
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