Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-26 Thread Martin DeMello
On 2/26/07, Chris Eidhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, we added some examples to this page. There are some topics that don't have any examples, notably: # 11 Network Programming # 12 XML * 12.1 Parsing XML # 13 Databases * 13.1 MySQL * 13.2 PostgreSQL * 13.3 SQLite

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Eidhof
Hey everyone, we added some examples to this page. There are some topics that don't have any examples, notably: # 11 Network Programming # 12 XML * 12.1 Parsing XML # 13 Databases * 13.1 MySQL * 13.2 PostgreSQL * 13.3 SQLite # 14 FFI * 14.1 How to interface with C If

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread Michael T. Richter
On Fri, 2007-23-02 at 02:24 -0500, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: Call me a technophile, but it saddens me that ASCII has already held us back for too many decades, and looks like it will still hold us back for another. OK. You're a technophile. But I agree with you. ASCII needs to die a slow,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread Steve Schafer
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:09:15 +, you wrote: Well, actually, I never cited the non-breaking space character as a problem. Well, actually, you did: Symbols such as the 160 used liberally in the Haskell wikibook are totally invisible to screen readers. #160; = NO BREAK SPACE Which is why I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread P. R. Stanley
So that's what it is! I wondered why alt-num-0160 only produced a space character. Still, as I said originally, it is totally invisible in the browse buffer. Anyway, are you one of the authors of the wikibook Or, are you just offering your assistance? All the best Paul At 19:03 23/02/2007,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread Seth Gordon
P. R. Stanley wrote: I'm referring to math symbols which do not get successfully translated into an intelligible symbol in the screen reader browse buffer. Is there a way to make the symbols both look right on a screen and sound right from a screen reader? E.g., span title=big sigmaΣ/span

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread David House
On 23/02/07, P. R. Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a tip for anyone involved in writing and publishing scientific materials on the web, unless the maths is either written without any funny symbols or, better still, typeset in latex, it is not accessible to a screen-reader. I was under the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread P. R. Stanley
As a tip for anyone involved in writing and publishing scientific materials on the web, unless the maths is either written without any funny symbols or, better still, typeset in latex, it is not accessible to a screen-reader. I was under the impression that modern screen readers could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-23 Thread P. R. Stanley
Is there a way to make the symbols both look right on a screen and sound right from a screen reader? E.g., span title=big sigmaΣ/span !-- there's a U+03A3 in there -- In theory the title attribute should be the adequate yet simple solution we're after. Sadly, in reality this 'aint the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-22 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Call me a technophile, but it saddens me that ASCII has already held us back for too many decades, and looks like it will still hold us back for another. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-21 Thread P. R. Stanley
and can I please ask anyone thinking of using special symbols to resist the temptation. Symbols such as the 160 used liberally in the Haskell wikibook are totally invisible to screen readers. I would be happy to proof read any document before it goes to the wikibook to ensure it's fully

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A real Haskell Cookbook

2007-02-21 Thread Jefferson Heard
I second this plea. -- Jeff On Wednesday 21 February 2007 22:34, P. R. Stanley wrote: and can I please ask anyone thinking of using special symbols to resist the temptation. Symbols such as the 160 used liberally in the Haskell wikibook are totally invisible to screen readers. I would be