Re: getting out of LaTeX

On 29 Aug 2006 12:41:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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Alexander Magidow wrote:

[nothing that remains]

Brian M. Scott wrote:

On 29 Aug 2006 05:31:11 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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[...]

Linguistic examples cannot be "available" as ASCII
text. ASCII text has no diacritics, for instance.

Of course they can, just as mathematical examples can. For
instance, in math mode the string '\alpha_j' generates a
lower-case alpha with a subscript 'j'.

That's typing 8 characters rather than 2 plus two formatting clicks.

The question was whether they were *available*. And some of
us would rather keep our hands on the keyboard than use a
mouse, even if it means typing a few extra characters.

Brian
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