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<blockquote data-quote="Kaledor" data-source="post: 5459479" data-attributes="member: 15360">I have posted math texts on a different messageboard and it was such a shock to use &quot;in-line text&quot; for the first time --it seems like such a struggle to describe what should be an easy problem... there's ()'s everywhere, exponents in the wrong spot, you miss a fraction bar and it's destroyed... ugg.&nbsp; Something like Addition of rational functions, that's a pure beast in-line.&nbsp; lol&nbsp; You take for granted how nice and easy it is to write out math problems on paper.&nbsp; That said, you want a real challenge:&nbsp; Try reading math and science texts out loud for tape lol.&nbsp; Back in my undergrad (before computers had fancy and reliable Optical Character Recognition software) I helped out translating textbooks to audio tapes for visually and reading impared students (long story that started with a girl that hooked me in <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).&nbsp; Now THAT was some tough stuff.&nbsp; It made it a bit easier when you knew what you were reading, but every so often I'd hit technical print that I'd have to just describe...&quot;The formula starts with a... a... a squiggle, kinda J-shaped, maybe a q? yeah... ummm, followed by a little (I think it's a smiley face)....&quot;&nbsp; I can only imagine what the person listening to this must've thought.&nbsp; I HOPE they had another reference in those days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaledor, post: 5459479, member: 15360"] I have posted math texts on a different messageboard and it was such a shock to use "in-line text" for the first time --it seems like such a struggle to describe what should be an easy problem... there's ()'s everywhere, exponents in the wrong spot, you miss a fraction bar and it's destroyed... ugg. Something like Addition of rational functions, that's a pure beast in-line. lol You take for granted how nice and easy it is to write out math problems on paper. That said, you want a real challenge: Try reading math and science texts out loud for tape lol. Back in my undergrad (before computers had fancy and reliable Optical Character Recognition software) I helped out translating textbooks to audio tapes for visually and reading impared students (long story that started with a girl that hooked me in :)). Now THAT was some tough stuff. It made it a bit easier when you knew what you were reading, but every so often I'd hit technical print that I'd have to just describe... "The formula starts with a... a... a squiggle, kinda J-shaped, maybe a q? yeah... ummm, followed by a little (I think it's a smiley face)...." I can only imagine what the person listening to this must've thought. I HOPE they had another reference in those days. [/QUOTE]

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