[BlindMath] Entering Math in word

[Lucas Nadolskis]

I did find out that using spaces is a good get around somethings.
I was having a lot of issues with fractions, specially when typing something like:
Lambda ^ k * e ^ - lambda / k!
That involves both greek symbols, math operators and fractions, so it was quite challenging at the beginning.
The times operator is something that I am still trying to find the best form, I have been using the * symbol, but it is not necessarily what I want.

However, this LaTeX equation editor is incredible for note taking and assignments.



> On Feb 4, 2023, at 12:31 AM, Neil Soiffer via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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