[BlindMath] Latex?

[Derek Scott Riemer]

make it habit to ask your professors to make sure they remove any solutions
or answers from the la tex before sending it to you. I have had this happen
on multiple occasions, including once, horrifyingly, a test. Fortunately,
the professor was trusting, and didn't try to accuse me of cheating,
because I was able to verify with a proctor that I literally walked away
from the computer when I saw \begin{answer} on the test, to make it clear
that I was not cheating. Just something you should be cautious of.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Mike Gorse via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
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