l'iconisation du verbe [formule discr=?ISO-8859-1?B?6A==?=te]

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Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:27:11 +0200


Greek  letters  and  mathematical  symbols are enclosed in the
        brackets "\(" and "\)" and are expressed as their character or
        symbol  names in the LaTeX typesetting language.  For example,
        write the Greek word for "word" as:

                \( \lambda \acute{o} \gamma o \varsigma \)

        and the formula for the roots of a quadratic equation as:

                \( x_{1,2} = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a} \)

        (Note: I acknowledge that this provision is controversial.

 
   I argue that encoding mathematical formulas as LaTeX  achieves
        the  goal  of  "readable  by  humans" on the strength of LaTeX
        encoding being widely used  in  the  physics  and  mathematics
        communities  when  writing  formulas in E-mail and other ASCII
        media.  Just as one is free to to transliterate  Greek  in  an
        Etext, one can use ASCII artwork formulas like:

                                          ---------
                                     +   /  2
                                  -b - \/  b  - 4ac
                        x     =  ------------------
                         1,2            2a


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