[Athen] LaTeX to PDF

[Ken Petri]

We supported ReadHear at OSU. It's a solid DAISY reader but it's parsing
engine is exceptionally particular. The last time I tested, it would handle
valid (and only valid) EPUB 2 documents -- so not those EPUB 3 with MathML
in them. Also, it would fail to open EPUB that had been output from many
converted books I had in EPUB 2 format. For instance, anything that I had
converted from MOBI to EPUB using Calibre failed to open in ReadHear. Also
many books I downloaded from Project Gutenburg in EPUB 2 would fail to open.

In the past, I have talked with developers at gh and know that have plans
to support EPUB 3 in the future. I would be interested to know if they have
that support yet. To my knowledge, they don't.

ken


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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Sean Keegan <skeegan at stanford.edu> wrote:


> > gh LLC claims their Premium version of ReadHear will read (speak) epub

> documents with MathML in them.

> > Does anyone have experience supporting students with the ReadHear

> product?

>

> I have not tried using ReadHear for ePub files as this was listed as a

> "Soon" feature on my Mac version. On the ReadHear website, it does list

> ePub as a supported format for the Windows version, but there are no

> comments about support for MathML in ePub.

>

> For DAISY books, I have had mixed results with the playback of MathML

> content on the Mac version. When it works, it works really well and is very

> responsive. Unfortunately, I have several DAISY books that I have created

> with the DAISY pipeline where the application crashes on start-up. This is

> a known issue and is to be fixed in a future version, but no timeline has

> been set.

>

> I would like to be able to offer the ReadHear application to students, but

> we are very Mac-centric at my institution and the crashing issue is not

> something that my students will tolerate.

>

> Take care,

> Sean

>

> Sean Keegan

> Associate Director, Assistive Technology

> Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University

>

>

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