Re: Question from Blind User
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- Subject: [mg1190] Re: [mg1178] Question from Blind User
- From: Richard Bowman <rbowman at bridgewater.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 02:02:45 -0400
On Sat, 20 May 1995, Evan Reese wrote: > Just installed the DOS version of Mathematica - the very last copy > available, so they told me - and have run up against a problem in the way > it displays answers. If you take the derivative of x^3, it gives the > answer as: > > 2 > 3 x > > If I use a voice synthesyser to read the answer, it will come out as > 2 3x. Using a braille display isn't much better, since I have to > remember to look on more than one line for the answer. > > Is there any way to get the program to display answers in a more > Fortran-like method? The quickest found solution is to simply add //InputForm to the end of each input cell. There should be a $-variable to set that will make this the default option, but in my quick look, I did not find one. Richard Bowman Dept. of Physics Bridgewater College Bridgewater, VA 22812 <rbowman at bridgewater.edu>