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From: William Elliot on 12 Jun 2010 03:19 On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Bill Dubuque wrote: > Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18(a)verizon.invalid> 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. > I also recommend you don't use TeX it can become tedious to impossible to read unless you've got a TeX reader. If you must use TeX, use it sparingly. If you want your posts to be read by all participants, then use Ascii only. Q,R for rationals, reals; a^x for a to the x-th power; sqr a or sqr(a) for square root of a; similar cbrt a; exp x or exp(x) for e^x when x is complicated; pi for 3.1416.... Rather that wrting pii, I use pi.i for clarity.
From: Frederick Williams on 12 Jun 2010 05:30 "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. No, I'm saying that if you want to mention the intersection of set X and Y, don't write $X \cap Y$, write X cap Y. -- I can't go on, I'll go on.
From: Frederick Williams on 12 Jun 2010 05:33 Bill Dubuque wrote: > > Please don't. TeX was designed to be read by machines - not humans. I don't know what Knuth's intentions were but you'd think that it would have been designed to be written by humans... ah well, even a man like Knuth will fail miserably sometimes. -- I can't go on, I'll go on.
From: J. Clarke on 12 Jun 2010 07:22 On 6/12/2010 5:33 AM, Frederick Williams wrote: > Bill Dubuque wrote: > >> >> Please don't. TeX was designed to be read by machines - not humans. > > I don't know what Knuth's intentions were but you'd think that it would > have been designed to be written by humans... ah well, even a man like > Knuth will fail miserably sometimes. Written by and read by are two different things. Any APL programmer knows that it is wondrously easy to write code in APL that does wondrously convoluted things. Any APL programmer who has tried to fix a bug in someone else's code also knows that trying to figure out what some other programmer's poorly documented program is supposed to be doing can be next to impossible.
From: Bill Dubuque on 12 Jun 2010 10:45
Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> wrote: > "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. > > No, I'm saying that if you want to mention the intersection of set X and > Y, don't write > > $X \cap Y$, > > write > > X cap Y. Imho X /\ Y is better. |