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From: Tim Bradshaw on 9 Apr 2010 06:13 On 2010-04-09 11:11:50 +0100, Tim Bradshaw said: > I hand-write any maths I do (which is not much, though more than a few > years ago) until I have a final (+/-) version. I meant to add: signifiantly I *don't* hand-write programs, not even tiny fragments of them.
From: His kennyness on 9 Apr 2010 07:22 Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 2010-04-09 10:17:58 +0100, His kennyness said: > >> ps. What do the dinosaurs think of MathML? The typesetting, I mean. > > Are there good systems that set type from it? The only thing I've > played with is getting Mathematica to generate MathML (because I'm not > about to type it in) and pointing Firefox at it, which produces > terrible-looking results on screen (and I would expect on paper). But > this is two levels of cruft - I bet Mathematica produces peculiar MathML > and I don't expect Firefox is anything like a decent typesetting > system. It looks much worse than jsMath though (but jsMath is pretty > heroic really). > Aha! jsMath!! You just changed my life. Thx, kt ps. kennyfans can start tracking 'kennytilton' on github, where I am ramping up an o/s qxells project (+ cells qooxdoo). just utils-kt so far, cells later.
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen on 9 Apr 2010 11:46 + His kennyness <kentilton(a)gmail.com>: > Aha! jsMath!! You just changed my life. Then take a look at its successor-to-be: http://www.mathjax.org/ -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell
From: Mario S. Mommer on 9 Apr 2010 12:19 Nicolas Neuss <lastname(a)kit.edu> writes: > m_mommer(a)yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) writes: > To make sure: Do you use Emacs/AucTeX and do you use structuring > commands like > > \newcommand{\abs}[1]{\lvert#1\rvert} > \newcommand{\set}[1]{\{#1\}} > \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\lVert#1\rVert} > ? > > With that and a little discipline (using begin/end{displaymath} for > example instead of $$) I can get quite readable source. I use almost the whole stack, Emacs + AucTex + x-symbol, although not that preview thing that comes with auctex. x-symbol is really great, btw. I still don't think the source is all that readable. Pen on paper just beats it.
From: His kennyness on 9 Apr 2010 13:52
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + His kennyness <kentilton(a)gmail.com>: > >> Aha! jsMath!! You just changed my life. > > Then take a look at its successor-to-be: http://www.mathjax.org/ > Damn. There goes my weekend! (thx!) kt |