[bksvol-discuss] Re: Math heavy books
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:50:32 -0400
It honestly won't surprise me if the publishers want to deal with an
organization liaison, but given the number and type of books I am
after if I can cut down the amount of work that person would need to
do I see that as nothing but good.
Given that my searches so far have turned up nothing in the areas I'm
interested in, computer science (not the same as computer programming
though that is also limited), advanced mathematics and related works
I'm guessing there isn't a huge desire for this type of material, thus
the more of it I can get done the less work others will do for little
gain to the community.
On 7/21/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bookshare has a person whose job it is to be the publisher liaison. It
> might help even more to contact that publisher liaison.
>
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> 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
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>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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