Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: mathematician equation markup? (was: Re: Must-read computer folklore books) Date: 25 Oct 2020 21:34:38 GMT Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <3qn8pf96vb11bf4bsape9arqkb7l7kstnr@4ax.com> <541bpf92f9gjd21fkp7c6ios6g8jeohvve@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net z7wkQXqGj7cvhhOlEQHdAw2ErtQoGjzBLhj0wKqaRDNJqrig1O Cancel-Lock: sha1:JaK63GGKtM0uq7Mn16nJSfnd7Vg= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:214887 On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:33:59 -0500, Dallas wrote: > On 10/25/2020 12:00 PM, John Levine wrote: >> In article <541bpf92f9gjd21fkp7c6ios6g8jeohvve@4ax.com>, >> J. Clarke wrote: >>>>> Google "LaTeX", which is not a rubber product. ... >>>> >>>> There's also Brian Kernighan's "eqn". ... >> >>> Not arguing, but as a point of information if you intend to submit >>> what you are writing for publication, you want TeX. A quick look at >>> the submission requirements for mathematical journals ... >> >> The American Mathematical Society started using TeX in the early 1980s. >> As you might imagine, typesetting mathematical journals had always been >> difficult and expensive. TeX made their life a lot easier. >> >> As to why TeX rather than eqn, the output of TeX looks better than eqn >> and in that era I think there still may have been licensing issues with >> Unix software. >> >> For other publishers, it varies a lot. Once I wrote a book in LaTeX >> mostly to see if I could, about 25 years ago. Their production editor >> didn't have any trouble with it and did the entire copy edit and >> production in TeX. >> >> > And, FWIW, apparently Wikipedia uses a variation on LaTex > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula > > "The version of LaTeX used is a subset of AMS-LaTeX markup, a superset > of LaTeX markup which is in turn a superset of TeX markup, for > mathematical formulas. Only a limited part of the full TeX language is > supported ...." I used Lotus Ami Pro for years. The file save format was mostly ASCII (except for images). But the equation save format was LaTeX. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org