[texhax] substituting the right keyboard symbols for quote marks
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Mon Oct 19 11:07:07 CEST 2009
P. R. Stanley wrote:
>
>>>> Paul: Is there a difference between
>>>> ``some text''
>>>> and
>>>> ''some text''
>>>> ?
>>> Did you look carefully at the output? The first gives opening quotation
>>> marks on the left (as one would wish) while the second only giives
>>> closing
>>> marks.
>
>> as far as I can gather from the other messages Paul is legally blind,
>> so looking at the output is a bit difficult
>
> Paul: Yes, I am totally blind and use a screen reader software
> which is useless with Adobe documents.
>
>> BTW: Paul, have you ever heard of robobraille.org?
>
> Paul: a long time ago, on BBC Radio 4, there was an interview
> with a gentleman from Denmark about the project. I'll have a scan of the
> web site later to see what's on offer.
>
>
as far as what I gathered from his talk at the conference where I gave
my presentation, you can simply send a file to robobraille by email, and
get a more accessible version back, or even get a link to a sound file
where it is being read out loud.
I was very impressed.
(though no math support yet)
/daleif
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