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Unicode has some symbols. But there is limited ability to arrange them freely. e.g: representing a continued fraction in plain text seems a very futile exercise
by partycoder 9y ago
Unicode has some symbols. But there is limited ability to arrange them freely.
e.g: representing a continued fraction in plain text seems a very futile exercise.
- Pxtl 9y agoSubscript and superscript are the bigger problem than fractions, also larger-than-one-line parentheses. Fractions can be aped in the ugly approach of dashes just like how Markdown underlines headers.
- pfortuny 9y agoMatricial data is quite hard to explain well in a non-graphical mode, though.
- com2kid 9y agoThe "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics" standard[0] can do this just fine. :) a_0+1/(a_1+1/(a_2+1/(⋱+(1/a_n ) ))) Past that into an editor that accepts the spec, and you'll get something like http://imgur.com/a/7hBwv http://imgur.com/a/7hBwv Disclaimer: I work @Microsoft improving on some math features, and we are the main implementors of the spec. Which makes me sad, since it is an open spec and it is really powerful! [0]http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf
- Pxtl 9y agoI'm curious about that one - was the space necessary?
- com2kid 9y agoI just tried it out in Word, apparently it isn't. :)
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- partycoder 9y agoPDF and OOXML are also open specifications. Try to implement them though, you will run into a lot of issues.