[BlindMath] Entering Math in word

[Neil Soiffer]

The built in math editor in Word is not a full TeX input system. In many
ways, it is closer to ASCIIMath in that parens are used for grouping and
disappear when you switch from "linear" mode to "professional" mode. That
usually happens when you hit space. A couple of examples:
to get the square root of the quantity x+y, type \sqrt(x+y) <space>
to get a 2d fraction with x+y in the numerator and 2 in the denominator,
type (x+y)/2 <space>

One big caveat: I'm not a frequent user of the builtin math editor. There
are likely many ways to achieve the same thing. Using parens and space is
what I've gotten used to as that seemed to work somewhat consistently for
me.

Neil Soiffer


On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:21 AM Aqil Sajjad via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> So apparently office 365 has a feature that allows entering math in LaTex
> in
> word without requiring any additional plug in. I was playing with that to
> see if it generates accessible equations. It kind of works in that the
> Greek
> letters are coming through. But then it's also doing some weird things. For
> example when I enter a square root with \sqrt{}, it reads the square root
> sign and the closing of the square root sign, but also has curly brackets,
> which should have just been part of specifying the opening and closing of
> the square root. Has anyone played with entering LaTex in word? What's the
> simplest way to enter equations in word or MathML by inserting LaTex
> commands?
>
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