[BlindMath] How to deal with Latex source materials

[Allan Mesoga]

You can convert your LaTeX file in html / epub with mathml using Pandoc.

On 3/2/23, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Nam,
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> Get the staff to convert their documents to HTML and check they are what is
> required. The staff can do that on their own machines. Get them to use
> tex4ht.
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> In addition: There are plenty of great resources for guidance on doing Data
> Science in HTML. I've seen works in HTML making use of R and Python that
> have proven quite useful.
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> I won't go pointing you towards tools unless I know what courses you are
> doing. I would hope though that the course staff are offering alternative
> resources to your entire class.
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> Data Science is moving very quickly. I struggle with the idea that the staff
> are using LaTeX documents to prepare their material, but keeping it current
> this way is their headache not mine. There is a growing emphasis on
> reproducibility, that can really only be delivered using a markdown oriented
> workflow.
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> I've been calling myself a Statistician all the way through my employment.
> We are teaching as many students who are calling their programme "Data
> Science" as we have "Statistics" majors nowadays so perhaps I'll modernise
> my label sometime soon.
>
> Our teaching of Statistics and Data Science is reliant on using practices
> that we want our students to use. Markdown is the basis of that workflow.
> The massive improvement in accessibility (mine more than anyone else's) has
> proven a game changer.
>
> HTH,
> Jonathan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Duong Tuan Nam
> via BlindMath
> Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2023 7:24 pm
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Duong Tuan Nam <tuannamduong at gmail.com>
> Subject: [BlindMath] How to deal with Latex source materials
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am using Jaws and NVDA. I need to read math materials in my Master of Data
> Science. My lecturers have provided me with  materials in latex source. I
> can read the source code in Notepad with Jaws or NVDA, however, it takes a
> lot of time.
> Can you please tell me what are the more efficient ways to deal with these
> latex sources?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Cheers,
> Nam
>
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