Re: Formatting posts
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- Subject: [mg10796] Re: Formatting posts
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:58:40 -0500
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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seanross@worldnet.att.net wrote: > This is a plea to those who paste bits of code from notebooks into > e-mail posts on the mathuser group. > > #1 -- Don't expect people to decipher the text version of 2-D code such > as: > > \!\(\[Integral]\(x\^\(2\ \)\) \[DifferentialD]x\) > > Instead, select your 2-D cell, change the format to InputForm, right > click on your selection and choose "copy as... text. Then paste it > into the email which will give a much more readable: > > Integrate[x^2, x]. > > The two bits of code above are the same. Guess which one will get read! For short code fragments I often use InputForm. However, this is very limiting for larger computations because I like using subscripts and greek letters. To me, the whole point of the typesetting capabilities of the 3.0 front end is that the first form, when pasted into a Mathematica Notebook, will automatically format as a readable 2D expression. Of course, you can paste Integrate[x^2, x] into a Notebook and then Convert to TraditionalForm. > #2 -- Do not paste the text of a notebook into an email message. Many > of us have been unable to ever get one of those actually recognized as > a notebook by following the directions. Instead, compress your > notebook into a pkzip compatible self-extracting executable and attach > it to your message. I guess you are using Windows? Not everyone who reads MathGroup uses Windows. A lot of us use Macs or Unix. pkzip is not a universal compression scheme. How about using compress, gzip, StuffIt, or CompactPro, etc ... > For short notebooks, append the file itself to the > email message as long as your email program knows how to keep it as a > separate file. IMHO, what is really needed is for Web browsers to be able to handle Mathematica Notebooks so that they can be pasted and read verbatim (perhaps a Mathematica Notebook reader plug-in)? Actually, instead of posting complex Notebooks I often point to a URL where I have put the Notebook. In the past I tried posting Notebooks as attachments to MathGroup. I've done this in other newsgroups without problems but, I think because of the moderation of MathGroup, the attachment somehow gets munged. Now I simply remove all graphics and append an ASCII version of the Notebook at the end of the message. Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul@physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________
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