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From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: DSP textbook
Summary: Readability measures...
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Date: 29 Sep 89 00:26:28 GMT
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In article <1989Sep25.185626.21313@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes: 
> Actually, I suggest we drop this entire line of debate, because it misses
> the most important point.  

I entirely agree.  I went along with the ``common environment'' argument
originally because an environment that is familiar to most people will have a
distinct edge in effective readability.  Unfortunately, the discussion seems
to be going towards laser printing articles and other rare events (:-)

I'm unfamiliar with Mathematica (did I get that name right from memory?) and
so far nobody has shown any, but between eqn and LaTeX, I don't think there's
much difference in readability -- at least, I'd be perfectly happy with
either.  (BTW you read my LaTeX right, assuming I read your eqn right :-).

I don't think straight ASCII is the answer, it quickly gets *less* legible
than an eqn or LaTeX or Mathematica-type notation.

There wouldn't be any public domain eqn -> LaTeX and/or vv converter, would
there now?  That way we could keep the followers of both religions happy...

SR