Re: The joy of plain text

From: William Elliot (marsh_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:55:24 -0800

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jyrki Lahtonen wrote:
> mareg@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > \alpha^2 + \beta^{5/2} = \sum_{i=0} ^\infty \gamma_i ^{-3}.
> > is not difficult to read. How would you prefer that to be written?
>
> I might write:
> alpha^2 + beta^{5/2} = sum_{i=0}^infty gamma_i^{-3}.
>
Much easier to read.

Other hard to read stuff is
ax^2+bx+c=(x-r)(x-s)=x^2-(r+s)x+rs=hardtoread