[Blindmath] MS Word, MathType, and HTML

Paul Topping pault at dessci.com
Wed Oct 7 23:09:07 UTC 2015


I should also add that this page looks odd with the partner icons off to the right of the text. The whole thing is somewhat ugly.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Noble via Blindmath [mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 3:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MS Word, MathType, and HTML
> 
> It is possible to do this, but there are a number of issues involved which
> make hitting the right combination not so easy to discover. Here's what you'll
> have to do:
> 1) Using your Word document containing MathType equations, use the
> "Publish to MathPage" option in the MathType menu, and select the
> "MathML using...HTML+MathJax" setting.
> 2) After you have exported the new web page, you will need to open it in
> Firefox and navigate to a math expression. While the cursor is on the
> expression, you will need to do a right-click, which brings up the MathJax
> context menu. From that menu, you will need to select "Math Settings >
> Math Renderer > MathML." Once you have done this one time, it will be
> remembered until someone changes it again.
> 3) Now when you read the new web page with NVDA, you should be able to
> hear the math and navigate just like you can in Word.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> 
> --Steve Noble
> steve.noble at louisville.edu
> 502-969-3088
> http://louisville.academia.edu/SteveNoble
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Blindmath [blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Greg
> Williams via Blindmath [blindmath at nfbnet.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 3:41 PM
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> Cc: Greg Williams
> Subject: [Blindmath] MS Word, MathType, and HTML
> 
> Hello,
> I have a Word document with Mathtype objects in it. It reads correctly
> using NVDA and MathPlayer. I would like to export this to html and still
> be able to read the equations using MathPlayer in FireFox. However,
> simply saving it as html does not work. I have also played a little with
> the MathType option to export to a math page, but so far to no avail (it
> gives me an error). Does anyone have an idea of how to do this? Thanks.
> I do know that MathPlayer is working in FireFox because I have used it
> on wikipedia pages.
> Greg
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