[BlindMath] Issue Accessing Formulae in Word File

[Bert Van Landeghem]

Dear Robert,

Many thanks for your feedback. I will consider Mathtype, but are you sure
this is the problem I am experiencing? With pandoc one should be able to
convert docx files to LaTeX.

Regards,
Bert

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 17:17, rjaquiss via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello Bert:
>
> You will need MathType software to work with Word documents. MathType
> allows
> a user to convert equasions in Word to Latex. MathType is a plugin for
> Word.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Van
> Landeghem via BlindMath
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> Subject: [BlindMath] Issue Accessing Formulae in Word File
>
> Dear all,
>
> I received a .docx file and have converted it to LaTeX with Pandoc.
>
> Unfortunately it seems that the formulae are not converted the way I was
> hoping they would be. Scientific notation seems to be translated with
> images.
> "\includegraphics{media/image16.emf}." is example code. No image files seem
> however to have been generated. Does anybody know what the problem might
> be, and whether or not there is a possibility to make these equations and
> symbols accessible?
>
> Kind regards,
> Bert
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