[texhax] [pdftex] TeX for the blind

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 15:09:37 CET 2006


This is a wisdom from pdftex. Actually I believe that this discussion
would be more appropriate there (and there is no sign-up fee :-))

On 12/11/06, Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/11/06, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> > As far as math is concerned attempts by AR to read it are completely
> > miserable and I would use voice annotation instead.
> >
> > > AFAIK markup of math is hard; do we really want to go the MathML way?
> > >
> > > Btw: I'm wondering why nobody mentioned the TeX-math reader presented
> > > more than 10 years ago at a TeX conference. I forgot the name of the
> > > author. :-(
> >
> > What about the exact name of the program?
>
> aster; author was raman (aster was his guide dog, now deceased).
>
> paper in tug 95 proceedings.
>
> last i heard from him, he was working at adobe, but (iirc) he's now left
> them :-(
>
> robin
>
> [cut copy to texhax, since i'm persona non grata there]
>


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