Re: HTML Mail for PHYS-L: Pros/Cons

[Maurice Barnhill <mvb@UDEL.EDU>]

On my reader the "if" below was beyond the end of the line, so that the
expression came out

  2
 x
if
  i

one must.

That makes my point.  Also, if the reader is using a proportional font,
the formatting fails.  HTML automatically handles both problems.

The HTML code is x<sup>2</sup><sub>i</sub> and requires no alignment.
Moreover, you can get a program to insert the codes so that you don't
have to know them.

Leigh Palmer wrote:
> > "x/i\ \2/" isn't obviously "x-sub-i squared."
>
>     2
>   x    is, however, and it doesn't take all that long to set it up if
>    i
>
> one must. I am capable of handling any of these "improvements", but I
> take the time to format my ASCII equations so that others less able
> to do so can read them. Long derivations including every step should
> not be needed in this group.
>
> Leigh

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Maurice Barnhill, mvb@udel.edu
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Physics Dept., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716