[Blindmath] answer about LaTeX to html

Tue Feb 21 00:00:04 UTC 2017

In my office we make a lot of accessible math eText and braille. Our
editors prefer to type LaTex into MS Word and then press Alt+\ to have
MathType convert the LaTex into a MathType object. It's much faster than
working in the MathType WYSIWYG user interface.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Doug and Molly Miron via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Good day Lukasz,
>
> I went totally blind about a year and a half ago, and I am an old
> research EE.  I was told about MathPlayer with MathType and Word early on,
> but only learned about LaTeX and mathml a couple of months ago. My first
> experience was reading equations at Wikipedia, which pleasantly surprised
> me.  Since MathType is inaccessible to me now, I am writing and
> manipulating equations in La
> TeX, which I may convert to html if I get good enough results to publish.
> If I were in your place, I probably would prefer to prepare material using
> Word and MathType as  it seems more efficient than using LaTeX.
>
> Regards,
> Doug Miron
>
> -----Original Message----- From: ŁukaszGrabowski via Blindmath
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 11:02 AM
> To: Lucas Radaelli
> Cc: ŁukaszGrabowski ; Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] answer about LaTeX to html
>
>
> By the dafault it's the former, i.e. mathml. But it's very configurable
> and if you prefer latex source as alt then probably it can be done
> (although probably that's not much more helpful than reading the source)
>
> NVDA with math player does (what it seems to me is) a reasonable job
> with reading. You can try an example problem sheet here:
> http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/grabows1/accessible/math103
> /Week14.tex/S0.SSx2.html
>
> Having said that, I'm preparing materials for a visually impaired
> student this year (legally bordercase blind, but with enough vision to
> read the above link at about 300% zoom), so I don't have any real
> experience on whether NVDA with mathplayer would work for a  maths
> student with no vision at all.
>
> So if you are or know a blind maths student I would actually be very
> interested to know whether a page as above is accessible via NVDA with
> math player.
>
> Best,
> Łukasz
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:45:37 -0200
> Lucas Radaelli <lucasradaelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does latexml convert the output formulas to mathml or it puts the
>> Latex source as alt in the images? if the former, what to use to read
>> the formulas?
>>
>> On 16/02/2017 13:22, Łukasz Grabowski via Blindmath 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> 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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