[BlindMath] Godel Escher Bach

[John J. Boyer]

Bookshare may be using MathML. However, I tried translating a book on quantum mechanics with an aplication 
(liblouisutdml) which is aware of mathML. the eqquations simply were not presentg. The text came out fine. Not very 
useful.

John

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:58:56PM -0500, Amanda Lacy via BlindMath wrote:
> Missing exponents (2 squared becomes 22), missing parens, etc.
> 
> I'm also trying to read Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach
> where I'm encountering these same (tiring) issues.
> My sighted friend can't even read the Bookshare version that well, so
> it's more than a screenreader issue.
> 
> And 2 squared isn't 22 no matter how much they might like it to be!
> 
> On 4/17/18, Sabra Ewing via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > They were not fantastic about it with me. Every time I try to get a math
> > textbook from them, it was not accessible. The equations we're not exactly
> > removed, but it is hard to describe what they are like. Amanda was there
> > though. She can tell you what they were like. Book share never fixed it.
> >
> > Sabra Ewing
> >
> >> On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Sina Bahram via BlindMath
> >> <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you let bookshare know through the form on their website, they are
> >> fantastic about rescanning/correcting the book.
> >>
> >> President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
> >> Twitter: @SinaBahram
> >> Company Website: https://www.pac.bz
> >> Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com
> >> Blog: https://blog.SinaBahram.com
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Amanda Lacy
> >> via
> >> BlindMath
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:12 PM
> >> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> >> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> >> Cc: Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [BlindMath] Godel Escher Bach
> >>
> >> Does anyone know where to get an accessible version of this book?
> >>
> >> I was enjoying it until around the chapter on recursion. At that point
> >> the
> >> text version I found contained gibberish where the theorems should be.
> >> The Bookshare version was just as useless; it left them out altogether.
> >> How'd you like to read, "...and when you combine theorem removed with
> >> theorem removed..."
> >>
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