[BlindMath] LaTeX Spacing Question

[White, Jason J]

A suggestion that may help: read the logs generated by LaTeX and pay attention to warnings about over-full or under-full boxes. If the lines warned about contain text rather than mathematics, you can often fix the problem by adding discretionary hyphens with the \- command. I'll leave it to those who use LaTeX for mathematical typesetting to comment on the case of long expressions.

I'm not aware of any word processor that offers such warnings of formatting problems that would generally only be apparent visually. I fixed at least one line that appeared prominently in the right margin of a draft of my Ph.D. thesis by looking at the LaTeX log. Consider it an unintended accessibility feature.

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> Hi all,
> I am finally taking a serious plunge into LaTeX. About time, I know... I've found
> it's not as bad perhaps as I feared, thanks to some great resources already listed
> here over the years.
>
> What I do find challenging is spacing, and I'm hoping you can help. How can I be
> sure a line isn't too long visually? If there is a specified line length, how would
> documents with LaTeX as their source display nicely on mobile devices?  What's
> the difference between an in-line equations on their own line and display
> equations? In Practical LaTeX there's reference to a "thin space". How have
> those of you who are virtually completely blind and users of LaTeX handled
> layout? For some reason I thought this would be easier with a markup language
> than Microsoft Word, but it would appear I was mistaken.
>
> Any thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Sarah
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> Thank you,
> Sarah
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