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." > > > ----- 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 >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> >> > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.