On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:28:13PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote: > We've all heard about WYSIWYG but that just means your printer can > show what your screen shows. Nice but in the age of the net, WYSIWIS > is *much* more important -- What You See Is What I See. > > By that I mean that I can have some confidence that what I'm sending > to you in email or posting for you on the web looks the same to you as > to me. > > In an earlier post, http://tinyurl.com/6x3g7a > .. I discussed the difficulty of rendering Math Notation within blogs, > wikis etc. > > This however, is a test to see if we can do Math in email. So we have > to try slightly different stunts. Most email clients support "rich > text". I'm not sure if this is standard enough, however, for the > Friam list. > > So this is a test. I'm inserting an equation .. and image that renders: > E = -J \sum_{i=1}^N s_i s_{i+1} > ..using the LaTeX web service: > http://www.codecogs.com/eq.latex > You can run it using > http://tinyurl.com/5o238w > and the results should give this image: > > > To test for WYSIWYG, I'm posting What I See in my mail client here: > http://backspaces.net/temp/Mail001.png > > Do you see something similar? Can we use this stunt for math > conversations on Friam? > > -- Owen > >
> ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org I don't see either image in my email client, just the LaTeX markup and a few URLs. I can copy/paste the URLs into a web browser, but this would quickly become tedious, and could be made simpler if you just typeset the whole thing in LaTeX and posted a PDF somewhere. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
