I'm of roughly the same opinion as Adam, although I usually lean a bit more towards plain human-readable form, even though that means I have to explain in another sentence or two which of the various gamma's I meant by "Gamma" or "gamma". For anyone with doubts about LaTeX, I have found texify.com to be the easiest way to decrypt any LaTeX that I run across, and they don't seem to mind you copying the output bitmap images (unlike, say, Wolfram Alpha which seems to be trying as hard as possible to prevent that). On 1/19/13, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
Can't we post simple formulae in the obvious single-line form, and more complicated ones in LaTeX? For instance, something as simple as Stirling's formula could be written assqrt(2 pi n)(n/e)^e, whereas more complicated expressions may be more readable just posted as LaTeX. I don't particularly like the use of white space to position things in a two-dimensional expression, since certain programs render text-only messages as monospaced, whilst others use Times New Roman or whatever.
And there's no point drawing an actual Greek letter theta when you can just as easily type 'theta'. That's just deliberately making it awkward for people like Warren who probably still use Internet Explorer 2!
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