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From: W. eWatson on 11 Jun 2010 17:48 On 6/11/2010 10:41 AM, Frederick Williams wrote: > "W. eWatson" wrote: >> >> I use Tbird for mail, is there some way to post msgs with math symbols? > > Use TeX sans the \ and $. > Are you saying that TeX (I know a very tiny amount about it) will translate math expressions into ASCII. If there's software that does that, that would be helpful.
From: Joshua Cranmer on 11 Jun 2010 18:02 On 06/11/2010 05:48 PM, W. eWatson wrote: > On 6/11/2010 10:41 AM, Frederick Williams wrote: >> "W. eWatson" wrote: >>> >>> I use Tbird for mail, is there some way to post msgs with math symbols? >> >> Use TeX sans the \ and $. >> > Are you saying that TeX (I know a very tiny amount about it) will > translate math expressions into ASCII. > > If there's software that does that, that would be helpful. What he's saying is that you should post your math expressions in a TeX-like format. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
From: Bill Dubuque on 11 Jun 2010 18:23
Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18(a)verizon.invalid> wrote: > On 06/11/2010 05:48 PM, W. eWatson wrote: >> On 6/11/2010 10:41 AM, Frederick Williams wrote: >>> "W. eWatson" wrote: >>>> >>>> I use Tbird for mail, is there some way to post msgs >>>> with math symbols? >>> >>> Use TeX sans the \ and $. >>> >> Are you saying that TeX (I know a very tiny amount about it) >> will translate math expressions into ASCII. >> >> If there's software that does that, that would be helpful. > > What he's saying is that you should post your math expressions > in a TeX-like format. Please don't. TeX was designed to be read by machines - not humans. |