The following example demonstrates the use of the Paragraph and Post-Heading Paragraph paragraph styles. This illustration is an excerpt from the sample document: Sample 1_Math-in-Word.docx

<title>Converting poorly typed math</title>
<p>When converting keyboarded inline math to XML, typically some manual cleanup is required to overcome authors who are either lazy or creative typers. Consider the character &#x00B1; (plus-minus, U+00B1). It is all too often entered as an underlined plus symbol, <underline>+</underline>. Once, we saw a paper written by a scientist who knew a minus sign was different from a hyphen but could not figure out how to insert the symbol, so he typed an underscore character and applied superscript formatting!</p>
<p>Improperly typed math may look similar to its semantically correct counterpart, but the difference between plus-minus and an underlined plus is important when the characters are published in XML. When the XML is then converted to text by text-to-speech or text-to-braille accessibility devices, the resulting equation is described inaccurately or nonsensically.</p>

The following example demonstrates the use of the Paragraph Continued paragraph style. More detail about the handling of the Equation and Preformat styles is given elsewhere. This illustration is an excerpt from the sample document: Sample 1_Math-in-Word.docx