What about non technical stuff? W dniu 10.03.2020 o 15:03, John G Heim pisze:
I think given that you're writing your thesis, most people would say just write it in latex. I write everything in latex, even when I'm writing my Congressman. I don't send my Congressman a latex document, of course. I either print it or convert it to pdf. Even if you could see, there would be good reasons for writing a thesis in latex. But latex has a huge advantage for blind people in that you can make a really nice looking document fairly easily. It is a really tough call though. A lot of people will tell you latex is dead. Most academic journals still prefer latex although they accept almost anything these days. If you are going to continue in a technical field, you will find more opportunities to use your knowledge of latex. On the other hand, a lot of people in technical parts of academia never learn latex. Personally, I think the deciding factor is that with latex, a blind person can make really nice looking documents. I frequently write grant proposals that go to dozens of pages and when I asked a sighted person to help me make it look nice, they almost never have anything major to correct. I cannot see what the documents look like but apparently, they look pretty good. If you decide to teach yourself latex, start with the wikibook. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX On 3/10/20 8:21 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:I could likely use markdown, and convert to latex. however the problem probably starts when you actually need to tweak this thing. Pandoc allows tweaks to be made, but things like some polish specific conventions for example? whaaaat? I am not sure how to do things like that when using markdown as source. W dniu 10.03.2020 o 14:11, John G Heim via orca-list pisze:I do all my writing in latex with gedit. The main reason is that I can easily make documents that look normal to sighted people. There is a tool to convert latex to pdf so when I email someone an article I have written, I usually send them a pdf. Gedit has a plugin for latex but I don't use it much. On 3/10/20 7:35 AM, Jason White via orca-list wrote:Michał Zegan <webczat_200 poczta onet pl> wrote:I have the following question: (note that for the purpose of this question libre office and word are treated as one thing, as in, I have both and can use both). What would you use to write documents like theses?Although you could use Markdown, LaTeX offers more control over presentation. I have written in both. For writing papers, though, I usually find that I need features that Pandoc Markdown doesn't offer, so I just write it in LaTeX instead. My work does not involve mathematics. I think the idea that LaTeX is primarily intended for mathematical writing is a misconception. I tend to use Markdown for simpler documents such as slide presentations. Of course, you can use whatever editing environment you prefer. Emacs works well in a terminal or console. For use with Orca, I'm not sure what would be best - perhaps gedit? I haven't had much experience with it. The better editing environments automatically check the markup for errors, and provide keyboard commands to insert it automatically (e.g., to add a section, to create a list or table, etc.). Are there any good editors, accessible with Orca, that support HTML, LaTeX, Markdown, etc. beyond basic text editing capabilities? That is, besides running Emacs or Vim in a terminal. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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