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    From nospam@nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) to sci.physics.relativity,sci.math on Mon Jan 5 22:55:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.math

    Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

    Anthk NM wrote:
    There's the aamath package for Unix where you can display formulae
    as ASCII ART:

    https://github.com/gchudnov/aamath

    Check the documentation; it has an option to shrink the radicals.

    Such software is nice, but it should NOT be used in for posting mathematics in Usenet, as we (I think all of us by now) have found out through a recent discussion.

    Newer Unicode versions were designed specifically with advanced mathematics in *plain* text *without* having to *draw* it in mind, and Network News has been supporting it through MIME since 2009 (RFC 5536); operating systems
    have begun supporting it even earlier. (So user agents which still do not support Unicode are non-conforming and thus *broken*.)

    There really is no need to. (and it often works badly or not at all)

    Any professional mathematician can read, write, and understand TeX,
    which is *the* de-facto standard for rendering math formulae into ASCII.
    He will also have the tools at hand to render TeX into good looking
    math, as opposed to your usenet junk.
    Even novices will rapid grasp the basic ideas.

    Anyone who can't must be a dunce who can be safely ignored,
    as far as mathematical or physical opinions are concerned,

    Jan




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