l'iconisation du verbe [formule discr=?ISO-8859-1?B?6A==?=te]
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utrema@online.fr
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
palais-tokyo // + qu'hier et bien - que demain