On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:18:24AM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks Russell. Which client? I believe you use Mutt. Does it have > a "rich text" view mode? Doesn't it make url's clickable even in > plain text?
Yes, no, no (Mutt doesn't understand mice). I have it set to launch lynx on HTML attachments (the usual way of including "rich text"), but only ever do so if my respondent has forgotten to include a plain text version. Lynx does not display images either. I did experiment with getting mutt to launch Netscape (this was a while ago) on HTML attachments, but waiting several minutes just to open an email was not an option. > > I ask because when I received my mailing via Mail.app, it too was as > you describe. I then asked to see it in the "next alternative" view > and it went from plain text to html/rich text. Url's are clickable in > all modes, I believe. > Its not the same thing. Mail.app is a GUI application, I believe. Mutt is text only, which is one of its features IMHO. > I agree about latex/pdf being an alternative, but it's not mail. I'm > looking for a casual way to chat about math within email itself. This > could be a fools quest! > I can't see what's wrong with just using LaTeX markup. Works with all email clients, is searchable and most working mathematicians already know it (since alternatives to LaTeX for mathematical typesetting are sorely lacking!). > I will say that, just as I find I need two browsers (Safari and > Firefox in my case), I also need two mail clients (Mail.app and > Thunderbird). In browser land, I have to use Firefox for MathML > because Apple has not implemented it yet. And Thunderbird seems to > handle other mail issues better than Mail.app. > > So maybe to do math in email we'll have to be willing to use multiple > mailers or possibly Nabble. It did OK: http://tinyurl.com/6qsyaj. > > -- Owen Well suit yourself. If I'm not interested, you won't hear from me. If I am, then I may request it to be typeset and sent to me as a PDF or PS document, or simply a URL to Nabble as you did above. It really is too much hard work to download individual GIFs. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
