Re: Re: Re: Limit of an expression?
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- Subject: [mg67689] Re: [mg67608] Re: [mg67557] Re: Limit of an expression?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:59:02 -0400 (EDT)
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David, InputForm (and Copy As Text) have no effect at all on Greek symbols, at least on Mac OS X with Apple Mail (however, I don't think the e- mail client could have anything to do with this). The other thing that sometimes causes problems is the weak inequality sign: <= and in this case converting to InputForm does help. I sometimes forget to do this because after pasting the TraditinalForm of weak inequality into Mail it continues to look fine. However, in the case of Greek symbols there is no other choice that I know of but replacing them by Latin letters. I believe that doing this is up to the original poster of a message and not up to people responding to it. Andrzej Kozlowski On 4 Jul 2006, at 01:37, David Park wrote: > Andrzej, > > I'm running on Windows98 with Microsoft Outlook 2000 Version > 9.0.0.2711. I cannot afford to update soon. > > My email is set to Unicode UTF-8 encoding for both sending and > receiving. > > I cannot read or use much of the code you paste into postings. > > As for me, I have a palette on my desktop that will copy and > convert Mathematica code to InputForm, which I then paste into my > postings. I'm under the impression that everybody can read them and > copy and paste them into notebooks. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > > From: Andrzej Kozlowski [mailto:akoz at mimuw.edu.pl] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > On 3 Jul 2006, at 06:32, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > >> If you past into mail program a Greek letter form Mathematica or >> the sign � the entire message will be posted as Unicode. These >> messages when they return to me sometimes appear illegible (because >> of the way the mail server is set up) but one mouse move to the >> TextEncoding menu makes them legible. I do not think it is to much >> to exact that Mathgroup users should learn to use their e-mail >> programs. > > > I think I had better explain it more carefully. The MathGroup server > is, in fact, set up correctly; sorry for claiming otherwise. For > example, the message I posted containing the text below: > > (Limit[(1 - E^((- > µ)*t*(s - 1 - λ/µ)))/ > (s - 1 - λ/µ), > t -> Infinity, > Assumptions -> > {µ > 0 && #1[s, > 1 + λ/µ]}] & ) /@ > {Greater, Equal, Less} > > {-(µ/(λ - s*µ + µ)), > 0, Infinity} > > was copied (as InputForm) from a Mathematica notebook and posted with > Apple's Mail. Because of the presence of Greek characters it was sent > automatically (I did not even think about it) as Unicode. When I > received it back from the MathGroup mail server it was perfectly > legible, since Mail recognized it as Unicode automatically (that > means the server did not insert any false encoding information as > some baldy set up mail servers are want to do). However, when I > received a message from David, containing a quote from my original > message, the above text was not legible, since the header of David's > message contained the information > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > which prevents the text being automatically recognized as Unicode by > Mail. However, in such a case selecting the message and performing a > simple move with the pointer to the item Text Encoding in Mail's > Message menu and choosing Unicode (UTF-8) makes everything appear > legible again. After that it can be pasted into Mathematica without > any further problems. > Here I am tempted to add a personal observation. From my past > experience on several mailing lists I have noticed that people who > complain about similar problems are almost always Windows users. I am > not saying that Windows mail programs are inferior to Mac ones, in > fact I am quite sure that they can do all the same things and perhaps > even more. However, it seems to me that it would be almost > impossible for an Apple Mail user to fail to notice the Text > Encoding menu and at least to wonder what it might be for. I suspect > that users of Microsoft programs are so accustomed to having a large > number of menus and buttons and so on whose purpose they do not > understand they never even ask such questions. > > Andrzej Kozlowski > Tokyo, Japan > > >