Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ucsd!telesoft!dar From: dar@telesoft.com (David Reisner) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Communicating DSP Equations (was: Re: DSP textbook) Summary: plain text, or as close as we can come Message-ID: <512@telesoft.com> Date: 25 Sep 89 00:15:13 GMT References:<19237@gatech.edu> Organization: David Reisner, Consulting Lines: 15 While I agree that many meaningful postings to this group will require substantial math, I'd like to see equations posted in a "plain text" format rather than postscript, TeX, etc. I'm primarily interested in the content of the discussions, I have no (easy) way of converting encoded equations while reading news, and no reasonable access to appropriate printing facilities IF I were willing to print every article before reading (which would also require some more general text formatting conventions to identify what should be processed by what filters). It would, however, be nice if we could all use some reasonable conventions to express untypeble symbols (e.g. summation {sum(i[l,h]) eqn(i)}, greek). -David {uunet,ucsd}!telesoft!dar, dar@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu