From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:31:53 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9094231c-0ab0-4d4f-9f14-657dae7fecc9@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228383880 25468 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2008 09:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:44:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 10:45:45 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 1L8AmG-0007ld-8x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:45:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8Al5-0003ls-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:44:31 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228357914 9631 127.0.0.1 (4 Dec 2008 02:31:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 02:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165032 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:43:56 -0500 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:60358 Archived-At: On Dec 3, 5:47 pm, Tariq wrote: > On Dec 1, 1:22 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > > > that's one of the myth among open source tech geekers. > > > TeX is proprobably not among one of the best tool among typesetting > > professionals. > > See my last comment below. > > > 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) > > You are dismally confused about the purpose of TeX and Mathematica. > They do not address the same problem, and hence comparing them as you > do only betrays ignorance on your part. Moreover, I do hope this > example of algebraic expression of yours is just another of your > mistakes and not what people who wrote the algorithms for Mathematica > should be proud of. > > > In the domain of publishing, there's Framemaker and QuarkXPress, long > > been the top professional tool since early 1990s. (i haven't used them > > though) I do not know whether TeX has even have a good percentage of > > market share among professionals typesetters. > > What has market share to do with being a top professional tool? If you > are habitually confusing quality with something else, I would highly > recommend a good course in logic at a nearby community college. > > Tariq Alan Mackenzie requested not to discuss Mathematica here. I wish to end this conversation here too. since you cross posted to comp.tex.tex, i'll further my argument with you there. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84