[BlindMath] Advice for blind biomedical engineering student

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hello Lucas,

I don't have any suggestions for limiting journal article searches to those published in HTML. It's just that I choose the search results that aren't pdf. Access to the HTML comes via the university library's subscription. For me that's automatic because I'm always logged into the university's IT systems, but I imagine my students might have to explicitly log into our library to gain full access.

Converting raw LaTeX to HTML can be handled in a variety of ways. My favourite is to use the tools that come with my miktex installation, being TeX4ht. When others use the command pdflatex, I use htlatex instead. You might need to fiddle around with the various options for that command to get the outcome that best suits your needs. For example: my CV is written in LaTeX (historical reasons only) and gets converted to both pdf and HTML using:

	pdflatex CV
	bibtex CV
	pdflatex CV -quiet
	htlatex CV.tex "html,1"


I admit though that my use of LaTeX is reducing all the time as I move more heavily towards using markdown for my own documents and infrequently need to convert other people's work.

HTH
Jonathan







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From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lucas Nadolskis via BlindMath
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2022 3:14 PM
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Cc: Lucas Nadolskis <nadol012 at umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Advice for blind biomedical engineering student

Hello Jonathan.
Thank you very much for your email.

You actually gave me an idea with HTML that I hadn't thought before.
I find it to be very promising and I will most definitely investigate it further.
On that topic:
One of the things I am trying to access now is a textbook.
The professor gave me the LaTeX file of the book, but due to its math content it is kinda hard to read in tex.
So I was trying to convert it with DBT, but the way the publisher wrote the LeTeX is not very friendly to DBT.
Long story short.
I have just converted it to HTML and it looks like it might have worked.
However, in braille the math portion doesn't show up, it is just the symbols of DBT indicating that the translation couldn't be made.
So, I don't know if that is a Duxbury problem, or an HTML problem.
Would you happen to have a suggestion of a program to convert LaTeX to HTML that would use mathJax or MathML so I could read it with jaws/nvda/VoiceOver?

Also, would you have specific sources or ways to filter the results when searching for a paper so it would show the HTML material or it isa matter of going through the results?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards.

Lucas Nadolskis.



> On Jan 23, 2022, at 10:52 PM, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan

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