People have been using TeX notation for years to get around ASCII tex limitations on emails and newsgroup postings.
Of course, it is also subject to perennial complaints from the users of wordprocessors like MS Word, who'd like to enter stuff the GUI way. So they end up including pictures or strange fonts that those who prefer using traditional text-based clients end up complaining about. And so it goes, and nothing really changes very much. MathML was supposed to be a solution, only its not, because it is dreadful to read, let alone write, and hardly anyone knows it. The only thing I've seen better than TeX notation is the maths environment on Wikpedia - so one can use a Wiki "blackboard" to have online discussions. Interestingly, the Wikpedia thing does support TeX input, as well as buttons etc for the MathTypers out there. And you get to read typeset mathematics in your browser, which beats reading TeX notation (even for us hardened TeXperts) Cheers On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:40:54PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote: > Agreed: a special keyboard would not work, but how about TeX producing the > mathematical notation you'd like? > > You'd type the TeX, and it could replace the TeX with the MN. Then, if you > needed to edit the MN, you'd double click on it to add/remove the TeX > script. Having an edit/view mode has worked find in other contexts. > > I'm not a TeX expert, but judging from all the books that use it > successfully, I think you could create the beautiful and succinct notation > you see in the books. > > AND, you could send it to me (email, web page, blog, wiki, ..) so that I > could enjoy it too! > > -- Owen -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
