[bksvol-discuss] Re: Math heavy books
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:08:27 -0800
Cindy
, Bob,
I thought of an easier possibility before I start the task of scanning
such complicated books. I contacted Addison-Wesley to see if they
will simply provide the needed material. I figured it can't hurt to
ask, especially since I have quite a few other AW books I am
interested in.
On 7/19/09, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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."
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>
> ----- 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
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