Hi Everett, You asked for a good starting point for LaTeX. Here's what came up from using a search at the Mail Archive site for the old list: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/ is a site that Greg Kearney recommended when asked for accessible LaTeX tutorials. Justin's Blind Cool Tech podcast on LaTeX and TeXShop (a Mac application for producing LaTeX documents) is available as a downloadable mp3 file at:
http://mediacloud.libsyn.com/bct/bct1078IntroductionToLaTeX.mp3 or from the Blind Cool Tech podcast page as "Introduction to LaTeX" 6/26/07 Here are some other Tex/LaTeX resources mentioned in the archives: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/ is a web page for "TeX on Mac OS X" now in wiki format that describes how to get started with TeX on the Mac, find resources, choose and install TeX "front ends" ("TeXShop" is probably the best choice for VoiceOver users, configured with "pdfTeX" as the output engine, because of its integration of PDF generation to Preview and because of the accessibility of its interface tools), use TeX mailing lists, etc. Bring up the links chooser menu and start at the "Getting Started Links". You can mark the main page for snapback with Command- Option-K, so that you easily return to it with the Command-Option-P snapback shortcut. The TeX Users Group maintains its own web pages at: http://www.tug.org/ The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the primary repository for distribution of TeX related software through multiple mirror sites, and is referenced and linked in pages for the above sites. A good resource for specific TeX usage questions is maintained at the UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes Links are provided in order of increasing level/complexity of usage. Look at the LaTeX primer and Justin's podcast to get an overview, and use the MacTeX wiki pages to see how one would get started and set up. HTH Cheers, Esther On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:39 AM, James Dietz wrote: > > I think Justin himself did one way back on Blind Cool Tech. You can > probably find it in the archives page (I think it was published aroune > June 2007). Sorry if I stole your thunder. > > James > > On 3/27/09, E.J. Zufelt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good evening Justin, >> >> Can you point us to a resource that may be a good tutorial / starting >> loint for latex? >> >> Thanks, >> Everett >> >> >> On 27-Mar-09, at 1:16 AM, Justin Harford wrote: >> >>> >>> Said it before and I'll say it again. I have produced the best >>> looking documens on my mac. My work looks far better than it would >>> have if I had stuck with windows, but this has been done with LaTeX. >>> Tables have tended, for this reason, not to be a problem for me. >>> >>> J >>> >>> "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already >>> tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts >>> comic >>> strip. >>> >>> El 26/03/2009, a las 21:10, E.J. Zufelt escribió: >>> >>>> >>>> Yes, this one of the few reasons that I cannot switch over to te >>>> Mac >>>> for all of my day to day computer uses. The lack of good support >>>> for >>>> tables in word processors and the lack of support for the Firefox >>>> web- >>>> browser. I really cannot understand how Apple can get away with >>>> not >>>> supporting tables. >>>> >>>> Everett >>>> >>>> >>>> On 27-Mar-09, at 12:52 AM, Justin Harford wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> That would be treu. Though it is not a matter of tables in pages, >>>>> but >>>>> a matter of tables in wordprocessors in general with VO. I had >>>>> emailed developers about this before. >>>>> >>>>> J >>>>> >>>>> "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already >>>>> tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts >>>>> comic >>>>> strip. >>>>> >>>>> El 26/03/2009, a las 15:43, Tom Frank escribió: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I like the accessibility of Pages, that is, until I inserted a >>>>>> table. >>>>>> It seems to be totally unreadable by VO. Am I correct? >>>>>> >>>>>> Tom Frank >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
