Re: The joy of plain text
From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 12/02/04
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Date: 2 Dec 2004 11:50:07 -0500
In article <waderameyxiii-749C4B.18020201122004@news.supernews.com>,
The World Wide Wade <waderameyxiii@comcast.remove13.net> wrote:
>In article <301120040755374483%edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid>,
> "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> wrote:
>> > Please, no TEX when you post here; this is a plain text newsgroup.
>> On the contrary, this is a mathematics newsgroup, where TeX is quite
>> common.
>On the contrary? Your statement does not contradict anything I wrote. And
>I'm not sure what "common" is supposed to imply: Poorly stated questions
>are much more common on sci.math than is TeX; that is hardly an argument
>for them.
>I was under the impression that sci.math is a plain text ng. Isn't this
>forum for the worldwide mathematics community at large? This would include
>many who are unfamiliar with TeX: kids, high-school teachers, all sorts of
>amateurs and hobbyists, engineers, math Ph.D.s who got their degrees
>decades ago and are in other fields now, etc. I once knew TeX well enough
>to write a few papers in it, but I left academia years ago and today I much
>prefer plain old text to TeX on sci.math.
That is if the plain old text can intelligently state the
problem. Too often, it cannot.
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