From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tariq Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:47:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228383764 25115 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2008 09:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:42:44 +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 10:43:49 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 1L8AkN-0007DC-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:43:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8AjD-0002uS-Di for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x8g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.text.tex Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.192.8.173 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228355265 1756 127.0.0.1 (4 Dec 2008 01:47:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 01:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x8g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.192.8.173; posting-account=j4-J0goAAACTdeq3UQ6SnmoX2cXrehae User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165030 comp.text.tex:381866 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:11 -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:60356 Archived-At: On Dec 1, 1:22=A0pm, 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