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:
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org>wrote:
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>>  On 28/04/14 19:37, Patrick O'Keeffe wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>>  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):
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>>     - 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 .
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>> 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.
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>  Tommaso,
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> 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?
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> FWIW, it is perfect here in Thunderbird.
>

Too bad for gmail then. I wonder if other webmail clients behave as
horribly.


S.


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