[BlindMath] Latex?

[Mike Gorse]

Fwiw, I don't think that I ever really spent a lot of time on learning 
LaTex Specifically. My first exposure to it had to do with taking math 
classes and needing a way to read quizzes and tests. In a lot of cases, my 
professors were using LaTeX to write the tests that they printed out and 
handed out to their students, so, rather than giving me a printed test, 
they could give me a disk containing their original LaTeX file so that I 
could read it with a screen reader. It probably wasn't the most efficient 
way possible to read math--having Nemeth may have been better--but it 
allowed me to read the math. I eventually started to use LaTeX to write 
papers (partly because I mostly wasn't using Windows and didn't want to 
use Word, but it tends to be used in academic circles anyhow), and I would 
learn how to do things as needed.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John G Heim via BlindMath wrote:

> Right. I used to teach a mini-course on latex at the University Of 
> Wisconsin. But the department decided it was not worth while because 
> most students already know it or they pick it up on their own. One 
> larger point to be learned here though: Students are expected to do a 
> lot of self-study these days. You're just expected to do things that 
> might have been considered extra credit years ago. College always was 
> different from high school in that way but I think the difference is 
> even greater today.
>
> If I was you I wouldn't b too worried about teaching myself latex 
> though. It's way more tedious than difficult. If you work hard enough at 
> it, you'll be able to get latex. To get a climatology degree, you'll 
> have to learn things way more difficult to comprehend than latex.