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AsciiMath has one large benefit over Latex: It fits how you would write math in an email. AsciiMath is perfect for users who do not know Latex (or code for tha
by tarjei 10y ago
AsciiMath has one large benefit over Latex: It fits how you would write math in an email.
AsciiMath is perfect for users who do not know Latex (or code for that matter) but needs to use mathematical notation on a daily basis.
I applaud that AsciiMath has resurfaced. I've used it in combination with Katex a cuple of times with great results.
- arcanus 10y agoHmm, in all my correspondence with engineers and mathematicians, we just paste or write latex directly in the email. Knowledge of latex is assumed, and honestly I (and my colleagues) are able to parse thus natively.
- blt 10y agosame, even when it adds nothing, for example I wrote \alpha in an email recently.
- vanderZwan 10y agoNow if only email had autocomplete like the Juno IDE does... http://junolab.org/ http://junolab.org/ (scroll down)
- zulln 10y agoEh.. there should be plugins for that.
- milesrout 10y agoIf you want email to have autocomplete, then it does. 'Email' isn't a client. The client you choose to use is. Write your emails in vim -> now you have autocomplete.
- monsieurbanana 10y agoBut does vim have a top class email plugin that allows powerful research, editing, sending and receiving emails? Because Emacs does. Choose smart, choose Emacs. (this comment is written half in jest) https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
- milesrout 10y agoWell no, because vim isn't an email client. It is a text editor, and good email clients can use it to edit emails.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y agoNo. The way to write your emails in vim is to use an email client that lets you open the text in an editor of your choice. E.g. mutt, or a webclient combined with an add on that let's your open textarea in an external editor (vimperator or its all text). P.s. emacs sounds like a great OS - are there any add ons that allow one to open its textareas in a decent editor? :p
- dTal 10y agoWhich is, in a nutshell, why it's important for a formal language to be easy to read and write, and why eliminating overly verbose notation matters. It's not just for computers...
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoIn this respect I think AsciiMath doesn't go far enough, precisely because of the Ascii part. Especially for super- and subscripts, why not use the corresponding Unicode characters? At least on my keyboard, "x^2" is one keystroke more than "x²", and the latter is much more redable.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoAsciiMath optimises for ease of use in both reading and writing. Fewer people know how to write x² than x^2, yet virtually everyone will read them equivalently. That's not true for n/2 versus \frac{n}{2}.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoIsn't x^2 typed <x><^><space><2>, while x² is the same minus the <space>, on most keyboards?
- thaumasiotes 10y agoI've never knowingly seen a keyboard that would allow you to type ² at all. So, no.
- ziotom78 10y agoOn my Linux Mint 18 KDE system, ² can be typeset by typing AltGr-2 (I can get ½ by pressing AltGr-5). I am using an Italian keyboard, but I bet this works with US keyboards as well. Recently I used Windows 10 quite a bit, and the number of AltGr combinations available on Linux has been the thing I missed the most!