XPost: sci.math   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  wrote:   
      
   > Anthk NM wrote:   
   > > There's the aamath package for Unix where you can display formulae   
   > > as ASCII ART:   
   > >   
   > > https://github.com/gchudnov/aamath   
   > >   
   > > Check the documentation; it has an option to shrink the radicals.   
   >   
   > Such software is nice, but it should NOT be used in for posting mathematics   
   > in Usenet, as we (I think all of us by now) have found out through a recent   
   > discussion.   
   >   
   > Newer Unicode versions were designed specifically with advanced mathematics   
   > in *plain* text *without* having to *draw* it in mind, and Network News has   
   > been supporting it through MIME since 2009 (RFC 5536); operating systems   
   > have begun supporting it even earlier.  (So user agents which still do not   
   > support Unicode are non-conforming and thus *broken*.)   
      
   There really is no need to. (and it often works badly or not at all)   
      
   Any professional mathematician can read, write, and understand TeX,   
   which is *the* de-facto standard for rendering math formulae into ASCII.   
   He will also have the tools at hand to render TeX into good looking   
   math, as opposed to your usenet junk.   
   Even novices will rapid grasp the basic ideas.   
      
   Anyone who can't must be a dunce who can be safely ignored,   
   as far as mathematical or physical opinions are concerned,   
      
   Jan   
      
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