Accessible Open Textbooks in Math-Heavy Disciplines
The challenge
The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely well. Practically every researcher or instructor in mathematics, physics, and computer science is adept at using it, and it has a wide user base outside these core disciplines as well (e.g., philosophy and economics).
Unfortunately, it only produces PDF output. PDF is not an accessible format: it does n...
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