There is an LaTeX2HTML converter at http://www.latex2html.org/
Because I do not want to get into making sure that the user has TeX
installed and running I will leave it up to those who want to do this
to compile and install the program basically it is a four step process.
1. Make sure you have TeX installed and running
2. Download the LaTeX2HTML converte and unpack it
3. Run ./configure from with in the LaTeX2HTML directory
4. run make and then make install and you will have the program ready
to use.
Greg Kearney
On May 14, 2007, at 16:00 , John W. Hess wrote:
excellent! I would encourage you to give a look in to what would
be available regarding latex. I really like your idea of
embossing from the context menu and if you can come up with a
program that rivals duxbury, is free and is actually easy to use
you mostelikely will have a mob at your door.
On May 14, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I believe there is a program to convert LaTex to either DocBook or
HTML. If that is the case, and I can look into it, then yes it
will work. Any file format you can turn into HTML, or in theory
any form of XML will work.
When Louis and the underlying code of liblouis encounters a new
XML format it does not know it will create a .sem file. The user
can then edit this file telling Louis how each XML tag should be
treated in braille for example which ones should be paragraphs.
Greg Kearney
On May 14, 2007, at 06:06 , John W. Hess wrote:
greg, this would go far in the world of education especially
since schools are still using the Mac. Please correct me or at
least educate me here. Would the latex ormat be included? I may
hav the name wrong but I am sure you know what I mean here. I
have heard my education department talk about this format and
don't really understand it but apparently it's used quite a bit.
Wow, Greg keep up that great work. Thanks.
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Subject: [macvoiceover] Louis, the MacOSx braille translator
I'm starting to think about a modern, full featured, free
braille translator able to compete, and hopefully improve upon
Duxbury which is no longer offered on the Macintosh. Built
upon the foundations of John Boyer's liblouis and liblouisxml
libraries Louis will be able to learn new XML based formats
permitting the end user to add new existing or custom formats
as needed.
Here are some of the feature which it I am looking at.
Conversion of the following formats to braille for output on
either embossers or screen readers.
MSword
HTML
DocBook
dtbook (DAISY text)
XHTML
XML
custom XML formats, you will be able to make up your own if you
want
Support for MathML to Nemeith code braille
Support for HTML based tables to braille tables.
Customizing output for numbers of cells on a line, line on a
page, line and page endings, braille and print page numbers
footnotes endnotes title pages and so on.
The user interface will be a combination of Cocoa based
application with connections to TextEdit or similar text editor.
What are your thought on this?
Greg Kearney
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