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Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?
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Xah Lee |
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Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? |
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Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:23:38 -0800 (PST) |
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On Dec 1, 1:43 pm, Paul R <paul.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xah> Mathematica is a order of magnitude better because its typesetting
> Xah> system not only passively show math formulas as a pretty printing
> Xah> system, but the markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for
> Xah> example, when you type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is
> Xah> x^(2/3) and you can have it automatically simplify the expression
> Xah> or computer numerical values).
>
> Are we really talking about a typesetting system here ?
Mathematica doing mathematical typesetting is news in the industry in
about 1997. For practical comprehensive overview of typesetting as a
field, see Wikipedia.
You can see some examples of latest features added to its typesetting
system here:
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin7/content/EnhancedTypesettingAutomation/
for the programers here who likes to compare Mathematica as a
programing lang, see:
http://wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/
Xah
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- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, G. A. Edgar, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Xah Lee, 2008/12/04