From: Barry Hadder <bhadder@fastmail.fm>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: TeX
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:02:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523190254.GA4429@debian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY141-DAV2D814BCE13F2F5FA354DF8F350@phx.gbl>
After I learned how to do it I never went back to a word processor.
A good place to get started is:
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex
The learning curve is of course much steeper than a word processor, but I
think it's well worth it.
Hope that helps.
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:10:52PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hello,
> I have heard a great deal about the use of TeX and LateX by the blind to do 'structured documents'. I'm wondering if this package would be appropriate for things like essays, with fairly specific formatting requirements. (I could always use a Windows word processor to do the same, but I get less feedback with those than I feel comfortable with.)
> If this is indeed the case, could anybody recommend a good site for learning the fundamentals? I've heard of a publication called the TeXbook, but can't find an accessible version.
> Thanks much in advance,
> Zack.
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Barry
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TeX Zachary Kline
` Barry Hadder [this message]
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` TeX C.M. Brannon
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` TeX Michael Whapples
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