From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:31:23 +0100 Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228131670 12642 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2008 11:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:41:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 12:42:13 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 1L77A5-0008Vz-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L778v-0007t5-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!claire.desy.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hasgksssven.desy.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NLifKimdafzqtqTDOPy+Vd2cv+4= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164953 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:60278 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > I see this stuff in math articles in wikipedia -- uses some kind > of ascii math-notation. What is it? Could you give an example? > Likewise, no fun trying to *read* the stuff. Emacs have a way > to make it look pretty? Well, if it is something which has been around for a while, calc could do it --- something like converting between: (1 + x) / sqrt(x) {(1 + x) / \sqrt{x}} \frac{1 + x}{\sqrt{x}} 1 + x ----- ___ V x and so on. Which, of course, is still pretty ugly... Does this help? Sven PS: Installing calc on modern Emacsen requires a simple patch which can be found somewhere hidden in the Emacs documentation... -- ___ _ _____ ___ Dr.-Ing. Sven Utcke ___ ___ _____ __ / __| |/ / __| __| phone: +49 40 899-8-5317 | \| __/ __\ \ / / | (_ | ' <\__ \__ \ fax : +49 40 899-4-5317 | |) | _|\__ \\ V / \___|_|\_\___|___/ http://www.desy.de/~utcke (to come)|___/|___|___/ |_|