Ok, this is getting off topic, but I just wanted to advertise the
fantastic service at GMane:
Evgeniy Maevskiy <emaevskiy at e-math.ru> writes:
>
> Benefits of forum:
> 1) each post with all the response messages in a single Web page
Use a better mail/news client or see eg.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/38457
> 2) the search for a specific subject by keyword
There is a good search interface here:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=bug%20report&group=gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
> 3) you can type mathematical formulas, and they look decent (as
> implemented in Wikipedia)
Right, well I agree this doesn't work so well in plain text. Some people
write TeX snippets in-line with their text, but I personally find that
quite hard to read quickly.
However, I've never really found a situation that well laid out text
(with unicode so you get some subscripts and superscripts and greek
etc.) can't describe well. But I agree that hefty analytical formulas
can be difficult to write out. Your solution of attaching an image seems
very sensible.
Rupert
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