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From: aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andy-Krazy-Glew)
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Subject: Re: Communicating DSP Equations
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Date: 27 Sep 89 01:15:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: doug@xdos.UUCP's message of 25 Sep 89 14:54:42 GMT

..> Communicating equations in newsgroups:
..> both TeX and Mathematica format have been suggested.

>[Doug Merritt]:
>Unfortunately, while both TeX/LaTeX and Mathematica would be nice,
>this won't work for Usenet articles. Only a small percentage of the
>readers of your articles have either of these packages. Also, even if they
>did, it would be very inconvenient to shift articles from a normal
>news reader (like 'rn' or 'vnews') into these packages for proper display.
>Furthermore, of the people who have access to such packages, they don't
>always have access the instant they're reading them.

Some considerations:

    Mathematica is proprietary. 

    TeX is, while not quite public domain (copyright owned by
    American Mathematical Society), at least is free.

    Mathematica can produce TeX output.
    Can it accept TeX input?

What would be nice is to have Mathematica and TeX interconvertibility,
perhaps with a sink to ASCII representation.

---

Why does every new newsgroup I'm interested in have these discussions?
There was a similar discussion in sci.electronics, for exchange of
circuit diagrams.
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