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Organizations like Recordings For the Blind (RFB) have been engaged in producing such ``talking books'' -an extremely laborious and time-consuming process.

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To most people, markup/ means an increase in the price of an article. Here, ``markup'' is a term from the publishing and printing business, where it means the instructions for the typesetter, written on a typescript or manuscript copy by an editor. Typesetting systems like La)TeX have these commands embedded in the electronic source. A markup language/ is a set of means (constructs) to express how text (i.e.,that which is not markup) should be processed, or handled in other ways.

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An audio recording of the author's PhD thesis produced by AsTeR is the first computer-generated talking book to be produced by RFB.

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This hypertext document presents a collection of math examples rendered in audio by AsTeR and in Postscript by LaTeX/DVIPS.

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PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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PDF, Portable Document Format, is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems.

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TeX does not provide this operator, and it will have to be defined as a macro. We describe how AsTeR is extended to handle such macros in s:macro-objects.

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Aster is my guide-dog.

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The bark is that of a generic dog, Aster is too well trained to bark, and could not therefore be recorded.

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TV Raman
Fri Mar 10 08:30:23 EST 1995