Re: [orca-list] ot: what to use to write technical documents (no math)

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

That's interesting - I'll try Gedit, just to investigate its capabilities.

Also, the accessibility of Visual Studio Code is apparently improving, as discussed on this list already. I 
think there's a LaTeX extension for it. However, when I last tried it (admittedly on a Microsoft Windows 
system - but it's a Microsoft project, after all), it didn't handle word wrap well with a screen reader. This 
might be worth revisiting once the Chromium support in Orca is solid - and that's definitely very good 
already - thank you, Joanie.

On 3/10/20, 09:13, "orca-list on behalf of John G Heim via orca-list" <orca-list-bounces gnome org on behalf 
of orca-list gnome org> wrote:

    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.
    > 
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