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Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) captures information in a layout independent form.
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LaTeX, designed by Leslie Lamport, is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth.
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In real life, AsTeR is a guide-dog, a big friendly black Labrador.
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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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This is an Emacs Lisp command, and in the author's setup, it is bound to C-z d.
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Bound to C-b q.
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ANGE-FTP, an Emacs utility written by Andy Norman, allows seamless access to remote files. In addition, Emacs clients are available for networked information retrieval systems like GOPHER, WWW and WAIS.
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Macros permit an author to define new language constructs in TeX and specify how these constructs should be rendered on paper.
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The sense in which we use the terms content and attributes does not always conform to the SGML notion of attributes. Children are analogous to the nested element types of SGML.
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Though we could model centering etc. as attributes, this is inconsistent with the LaTeX model where such attributed paragraphs are more conveniently treated as new object types.
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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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TeX does not itself impose this; one can always write a macroreverse that displays its arguments in reverse order.
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We would like to thank the authors for providing electronic access to the LaTeX source for their book. It proved an invaluable online Lisp reference while implementing AsTeR .
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We have also built in the macros dx, dy, [tex2html_wrap5450] as special cases.
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Switching to a new voice causes a slight pause in the speech, so it is inadvisable to change the speaking voice in the middle of a sentence, since this ruins the intonation.
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This is because female voices use a different noising source.
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We use standard method combination as defined in CLOS. See a:clos-terminology for an overview of some of these terms.
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All fleeting speech cues are verbalized using a slightly softer voice to set them apart from actual document content.
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In general, these may be curves rather than straight lines.
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This is an unwritten rule, however, and may be different in some fields, though we do not know of one.
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This is joint work with Dr. Dennis Arnon of Xerox PARC.
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To see this, think of the fraction written linearly, i.e., [tex2html_wrap5724].
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A memoized function remembers its results between invocations for efficiency.
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The author has found this feature very useful in understanding difficult mathematical proofs.
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This is a simplified rule. This rule also takes care of rendering the footnote marker before delaying the rendering of the footnote text.
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Figures are rendered by speaking the figure caption.
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Contrast this with command quit (bound to q).
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The browser interface is implemented using Emacs Lisp. Key-strokes execute EMACS Lisp commands, which in turn send the right forms to the Lisp system. The browser interface will have to be re-implemented if Lisp is not being run inside EMACS.
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A user of AsTeR is free to re-map these actions to other keys.
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Emacs terminology for C-u as a prefix to the command.
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See a:accessibility-faq for some frequently asked questions about accessible documents and our answers.
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See FTP://cc.gatech.edu/multimedia/papers/Mercator for online papers.
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This thesis was written using IBM Screen Reader, a screen-reading program, to provide access to the visual display.
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PDF (Page Description Format) is a portable form of exchanging visually formatted information used by the Adobe Acrobat.
TV Raman
Thu Mar 9 20:10:41 EST 1995