[Blindmath] answer about LaTeX to html

[Łukasz Grabowski]

Hi Russell,

I speak as someone who has tried different approaches to converting
latex to accessible html this year - pandoc is not good for this
purpuse, you should really use latexml if you have a tex file which you
need to convert to an accessible version.

What pandoc is absolutely great for is writing new documents. Also if I
had a blind maths student which I needed to teach to write mathematical
documents, I would go with pandoc.

The point is that pandoc very intelligently restricts what you can do
in a document, allowng to focus on the content, lowering the numberof
typos, etc.. But converting existing latex documents to pandoc (or
should I say "pandoc markdown" to be completely correct) is a pain.

Best,
Łukasz

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:13:34 -0700
Russell Solowoniuk via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Mathieu,
> 
> Assuming one could obtain a math or physics textbook in LaTeX format,
> would it be possible to run the textbook file through Pandoc and end
> up with a screen reader accessible version of the text? Or, would a
> lot of editing need to be done before using Pandoc, i.e. removing
> images, diagrams, etc.?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Russell
> 
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> >>> Mathieu Barbe via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> 2017-02-16
> >>> 3:20 AM >>>  
> Hi all,
> 
> pandoc is a good solution to convert math.
> 
> Pandoc can convert markdown to html with mathml or mathjax.
> For instance :
> 
> code markdown :
> 
> % My title
> % My name
> % 16 Feb 2017
> 
> # My equation and level 1
> 
> This is a sum :
> 
> $\sum_{i=0}^n i^2$
> 
> End markdown code
> 
> type in the command line :
> 
> pandoc -s --mathml source.markdown -o out.html
> 
> if you want mathjax instead of mathml, replace --mathml by --mathjax!
> 
> If you have LaTeX source you also convert in html web page.


> however, if tex source contains specials commands, there may be
> errors.
> 
> command line :
> 
> pandoc -s --mathml source.tex -o out.html
> 
> The -s option ask to pandoc to generate header before your texte.
> 
> ++ Mathieu
> 
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