On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote:

>  On 28/04/14 19:37, Patrick O'Keeffe wrote:
>
> I don't personally see any advantage to composing emails in Lyx. OP
> suggested it because of the beautiful formatting provided by LaTeX but HTML
> isn't capable of such beauty. If you need the aesthetics, you're stuck
> emailing it as an attachment anyway.
>
>
> Forget about beauty, this is about functionality and convenience: copying
> from LyX (trunk), I can send you this (I hope you can display it correctly,
> at least it shows up OK while I'm composing it):
>
>     - For each hosts pair   (   j  1  ,  j  2   ) ∈  H  ×  H ,   a set
>    P      j  1  ,  j  2       of interconnection paths may be available
>    and usable, where each path   p ∈    P      j  1  ,  j  2        is
>    associated with the sequence     P      j  1  ,  j  2  ,p     of its
>    L     j  1  ,  j  2  ,p     links      P      j  1  ,  j  2  ,p   ={ (
>    a     j  1  ,  j  2  ,p,1   ,  b     j  1  ,  j  2  ,p,1    ), … ,(   a
>    j  1  ,  j  2  ,p,  L     j  1  ,  j  2  ,p      ,  b     j  1  ,  j  2
>    ,p,  L     j  1  ,  j  2  ,p       ) } ⊂  L .
>
>
> Leaving the meaning aside, my question is: how can I write this in
> Thunderbird? The only way is to attach the .lyx document, or an export of
> it, and it takes just more time to do that, rather than copy/paste.
>
>
Tommaso,

I don't know what you see in Thunderbird, but I can assure you that in
gmail your formula is barely legible. Wouldn't it be easier to "typeset" it
in ascii?


Cheers,

Stefano

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