[nfbcs] latex benefits

Nicole Torcolini ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Wed Jan 25 01:17:58 UTC 2017


I used it as the output of my Java program that backtranslated Nemeth
written on a electronic Braille notetaker, and I could correct any errors
that my program made, but I never actually used it myself. It was just too
much to process for me.

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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Doug Lee via
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:00 PM
To: Greg Kearney via nfbcs
Cc: Doug Lee
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] latex benefits

1970's? Wow! I learned about it in the late 80's and loved it; used it for
college coursework and got some profs that used it to send me homeworks in
LaTeX files instead of hard copy or images. PicTeX was hard to use then
because of how much memory it required, but I may have used that module a
time or two to generate graphs and such. I think I stopped using LaTeX soon
after the conversion from \documentstyle to \documentclass though, so I'm
sure there's a lot I'd have to relearn were I to have occasion to use it
again. Still, when I updated a four-year-old Cygwin installation earlier
this week, I consciously made sure to include TeX/LaTeX in the set of
installed packages.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:42:32PM -0600, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
LaTex is a complex document processing and typesetting application that is
uniquely suited for blind users in my opinion. While the learning curve is
steep the results you will get out of LaTex and it's parent TeX are without
equal in quality.

It is perfectly possible to generate database diagrams, math expression or
even music scores in LaTeX/TeX. There are addin modules to do all that and
more. IT is suited for blind users because it is a code based system in
which one composes the work in a text editor and then processes the code to
generate the PDF typeset file.

I have used LaTex since the 1970's and it has never failed me yet. HArd to
learn but well worth the effort.

Greg Kearney
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Andy B. via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Someone recommended that I should start using latex. Is this true, and 
> if so, what are the benefits?
> 
> 
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