[BlindMath] Entering Math in word

Mon Feb 6 23:45:27 UTC 2023

Pressing 'Enter' or right arrow key on the keyboard should bring you out of the Equation Editor.

Thanks
Shail

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Is there a keystroke we need to press at the end of an equation to end the math mode? It seems strange that we first press alt + to get into math mode where we can enter an equation, but when I press alt= at the end of an equation, it doesn't seem to do anything.

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Entering Math in word

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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