This module and its command-line client assists in preparing and editing lecture material, books and more for visually impaired and blind students. It is developed at the AG SBS. The format for editing is MarkDown and the accessible output format is HTML. HTML has the advantage that the referenced images can be described with an alternate text for the screen reader user, while displaying the actual image on the screen. This enables visually impaired/blind students to work with their sighted colleagues using the same document.
This module automates a lot of processes and can be used in other applications as a plugin or on the command line. It converts the source markdown documents (with a few AG SBS-specific language extensions), creates a table of contents for the lecture, creates navigation bars in the documents and more.
You can install this module as well as the program from source. The following sections describe the installation for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac. You are welcome to send corrections or additions, as well as any requests.
- Python
- Pandoc: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
- pandocfilters for python
- pip3 install pandocfilters
- GladTeX: http://humenda.github.io/GladTeX/downloads.html
- a LaTeX distribution.
- On GNU/Linux, you should use your package manager to get a recent
version of GladTeX and a LaTeX distribution. If you happen to run
Debian, Linux Mint or Ubuntu, typing
sudo apt-get install gladtex texlive-fullinstalls everything (or hunt down the packages yourself). - On OS/X, you should install GladTeX from source and install MacTeX.
- On windows you can try MikTeX
- It is advised that you install a 64 bit MikTeX on a 64 bit system because a mixture of 32 and 64 bit components is known to cause hard to debug issues.
- On GNU/Linux, you should use your package manager to get a recent
version of GladTeX and a LaTeX distribution. If you happen to run
Debian, Linux Mint or Ubuntu, typing
On any platform, it is enough to change to the source directory and issue the following command:
pip install --upgrade .
Note: on Debian and derivatives (Mint, Ubuntu), pip3 should be used instead.
For correct running of different language versions, it is now necessary to manually generate .mo files and create appropriate structure given by gettext, i.e. localedir/language/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo for each language (encoded using two-letter codes given by ISO-639-1).
For generation, you can use the e.g. the [msgfmt script] (http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/msgfmt.html)
The source code is auto-formatted using the black code formatter.
Before committing code changes, install it via pip install -U black and run black . in the repository's root to ensure everything is formatted in a consistent manner.