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Re: how to write Roman numerals please

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jan 4, 2012 7:09PM

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It's been a while since I touched a screen reader, but: don't some of
> them also have internal lists/heuristics to help read out common things
> like roman numerals? As a user setting?

Most do have settings like this, but I don't think there's a simple
option toggle for reading roman numerals. I think you'd have to set it
up yourself. And there's an awful lot of roman numerals, so that
doesn't help much. You also probably wouldn't want all of them ("I",
"IV", "MIX", etc.) read as numbers rather than letters or words.

Roman numerals aren't really all that common (they were, after all,
pretty much dropped after the "Roman" Empire, except by elitists). I
don't think it's worth any real effort to 'hack' them for screen
reader users.

Jared