On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 04/28/2014 06:10 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org>wrote: > >> On 28/04/14 19:37, Patrick O'Keeffe wrote: >> >> I don't personally see any advantage to composing emails in Lyx. OP >> suggested it because of the beautiful formatting provided by LaTeX but HTML >> isn't capable of such beauty. If you need the aesthetics, you're stuck >> emailing it as an attachment anyway. >> >> >> Forget about beauty, this is about functionality and convenience: >> copying from LyX (trunk), I can send you this (I hope you can display it >> correctly, at least it shows up OK while I'm composing it): >> >> - For each hosts pair ( j 1 , j 2 ) ∈ H × H , a set P j 1 , j 2 of >> interconnection paths may be available and usable, where each path p ∈ P j >> 1 , j 2 is associated with the sequence P j 1 , j 2 ,p of its L j 1 , j 2 >> ,p links P j 1 , j 2 ,p ={ ( a j 1 , j 2 ,p,1 , b j 1 , j 2 ,p,1 ), … ,( a >> j 1 , j 2 ,p, L j 1 , j 2 ,p , b j 1 , j 2 ,p, L j 1 , j 2 ,p ) } ⊂ L . >> >> >> Leaving the meaning aside, my question is: how can I write this in >> Thunderbird? The only way is to attach the .lyx document, or an export of >> it, and it takes just more time to do that, rather than copy/paste. >> >> > Tommaso, > > I don't know what you see in Thunderbird, but I can assure you that in > gmail your formula is barely legible. Wouldn't it be easier to "typeset" it > in ascii? > > > FWIW, it is perfect here in Thunderbird. > Too bad for gmail then. I wonder if other webmail clients behave as horribly. S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org