Re: Question from Blind User
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- 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>