[Blindmath] LaTeX to MathML

Neil Soiffer soiffer at alum.mit.edu
Thu Mar 24 22:23:41 UTC 2016


The wiris wysiwyg editor is supposedly accessible with jaws. I tried it
with nvda and accessibility was not great but probably usable. It generates
mathml, so you might give it a try. It is browser based.

Neil Soiffer
On Mar 24, 2016 7:58 AM, "Dzhovani via Blindmath" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>   Thank you for the input. Miktex is indeed not so useful any more. I
> discovered the above mentioned tutorial in 2013 or 2014 and it was
> already outdated. Pandoc is an acceptable solution, but if I can turn
> the content into even more friendly format, it would be great.
>   A bit further, someone wrote a few weeks ago that typing mathML by
> hand is suicidal approach. How then is MathML content generated and are
> there good repositories of such materials? "Good" meaning "structured
> and comprehensive".
> Regards,
> Dzhovani
>
> On 24.3.2016 г. 02:57 ч., Godfrey, Jonathan via Blindmath wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Unfortunately this mode of conversion is no longer as useful as it was
> under miktex2.8 where tex4ht was more fully supported.
> >
> > Under the current version 2.9, the ability to convert math expressions
> into anything other than an unlabelled graphic is supposedly possible, but
> proves very difficult to set up properly. In my discussions with everyone
> I've met using 2.9 and supposedly generating the MathML cannot explain to
> me what extra steps I need to get this working again.
> >
> > Miktex2.8 is no longer supported so practically everyone will have
> upgraded to 2.9 and therefore lost that wonderful tool.
> >
> > I'd love to see it sorted out. The major advantage of tex4ht over the
> other suggestions offered is that it could handle the user defined
> functions I mentioned in my last post as it operated at the right level in
> the compilation process to get so many things right. I still use tex4ht to
> generate html files, but the math content advantage is lost, so I now only
> use it for content that has very little Greek and equations.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of John
> Gardner via Blindmath
> > Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 1:46 p.m.
> > To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> > Cc: John Gardner
> > Subject: Re: [Blindmath] LaTeX to MathML
> >
> > Hi, see the tutorial written by Michael Whapples on converting LaTeXD to
> HTML+MathML at:
> > http://www.access2science.com/latex/tutorial_txht.xhtml
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Dzhovani via Blindmath
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 4:34 AM
> > To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Dzhovani <dzhovani.chemishanov at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Blindmath] LaTeX to MathML
> >
> > Hi all,
> >   Is there a way to convert large files from LaTeX to MathML or some
> other more user friendly format? What I have in mind right now is the texts
> from arxiv.org, but it could be generalized, I suppose.
> >   So far I have used Pandoc to turn .tex to markdown; however, it does
> not affect the math equations, only allowing for smoother reading of the
> normal text.
> > TIA,
> > Dzhovani
> >
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