On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, David Arnold wrote: > All, > > I just received this from our disabled students' center. > > What is needed is a simple way to convert a Context document into a format > that can be "read" by these MathML players. > > Are we anywhere close to such a conversion?
There is some work for latex documents. Have a look at http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/aster/aster-toplevel.html I do not know if this can be extended to handle context. Aditya > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Love, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: June 1, 2006 10:14:37 AM PDT >> To: "Arnold, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Math 120 textbook for Fall 2006 >> >> Hi Dave: >> >> A student with a reading disability has requested an alternate version of >> the Math 120 textbook for Fall 2006. Jean Lawry told me that the Math >> faculty is creating the book, to give to students on a CD. I think that is >> just great! My task is to put that into a format that the student can >> listen to. Assuming that your CD doesn?t have all the info in audio files, >> one strategy is that I can scan the print version (Jean said there will be >> one), and extract the text. The problem?as with all Math books to this >> point?is that the scanning software doesn?t do math. Tracey ordered the >> site license for MathType, so I could re-create the math line by line. Much >> easier for me would be if the equations are already in a format that can be >> converted to be read by MathPlayer, such as MathML. One option is a flavor >> of .tex that Scientific Notebook can handle, that can be exported as >> .XHTML. Please give me a heads-up on how you?re making the book, so I can >> plan ahead. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ken Love >> >> High Tech Center >> >> X4557 >> >> _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
