[BlindMath] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: Advice for blind biomedical engineering student

[Robin Williams]

Hello Lucas,

When reading papers I often consult the preprint archive at arxiv.org. Here you can download the source files used to generate the paper and, therefore, presumably produce the paper in other formats including HTML.

Also, the latex-access scripts at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-access/
were designed to help in reading (and editing) materials in LaTeX source. You might find this useful if you are for some reason unable to convert a LaTeX source file to HTML. For example, when I was in academia I would often have the LaTeX source of books, but without the image files, and so converting to HTML would have been very difficult. The latex-access project has recently been taken over by another author, who may be on this list, and I believe is now on GitHub, or it will be shortly.

HTH,
Robin

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From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lucas Nadolskis via BlindMath
Sent: 27 January 2022 02:14
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Cc: Lucas Nadolskis <nadol012 at umn.edu>
Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 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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