[Blindmath] answer about LaTeX to html

Thu Feb 16 15:24:20 UTC 2017

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On Feb 16, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Łukasz Grabowski via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

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<mailto: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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