[bksvol-discuss] Re: Math heavy books
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:47:27 -0500
Hi Soronel.
I am forwarding your message to the volunteers action team (vat) for their
input. To the best of my knowledge there are no guidelines in place to
handle the types of books you are asking about.
Thanks.
Bob
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask
for it back when it begins to rain."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "bksvol-discuss" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Math heavy books
I am considering scanning some books that are extremely math heavy
including Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Is there an
accepted method of translating equations that use multi-line symbols
such as integrals and summations? Also, since I use text-to-speech
rather than braille displays (I only recently became blind and have
not nor intend to learn braille at this time) I have no idea how greek
letters are handled by such devices. All of the books I am
considering scanning have a great deal of math markup, including such
things as super and subscripts, equations as mentioned above etc.
There are also graphs, flowcharts and other elements that I have no
idea how to handle properly.
I have tried searching the existing bookshare library but as far as I
can tell the existing math books focus much more on elementary level
texts rather than univesity course work.
I know wikipedia as an example uses latex markup, but that isn't very
pretty as text in my opinion.
Any thoughts on this?
--
Soronel Haetir
soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx
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