From: William Elliot on
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Bill Dubuque wrote:

> 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.
>