From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Carmody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:31:07 +0200 Organization: Saunalahti Customer Message-ID: <873ah7wbo4.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> References: <87oczwkmy2.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <26c8eecf-4e39-4ef6-8a3c-83bdf7f1f32f@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228185650 7261 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2008 02:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 03:41:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7LCy-0006rs-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7LBo-0004MW-7P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:40:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!reader1.news.saunalahti.fi!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uNIzucoJwBwSv4ykDPN2lg0zDEI= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.143.57.195 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.news.saunalahti.fi 1228185025 83.143.57.195 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:30:25 EET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:30:25 EET Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164974 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60300 Archived-At: Timothy Murphy writes: > Xah Lee wrote: >> Mathematica is a >> order of magnitude better because its typesetting system not only >> passively show math formulas as a pretty printing system, but the >> markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for example, when you >> type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is x^(2/3) > > Hope this isn't so ... I suspect of all the reasons to prefer Pari/GP: $ gp -q ? printtex(x^2/x^3) \frac{1}{x} over Mathematica, that this isn't one of them. It's a reason to prefer Xah in ones killfile, though. Phil -- I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.