Well, maybe I'm just too fussy. (My first job, in the early '70s, was writing software to typeset mathematics beautifully, and I always thought that TeX was a big step backwards from the state of the art.) Your png looks quite similar to what I see. Should I not expect the first two 1s to be at the same height? Should I not expect the ; between 1/qz and 1/q to be vertically centered around the fraction bars so that the semicolon's dot doesn't look like a center dot? And should I not expect the spacing to be a bit looser in several places? --ms On 2012-10-21 16:08, Bill Gosper wrote:
Mike S>Pasting this into texify as directed yielded some of the worst-typeset math I've ever seen.
On 2012-10-21 08:03, Bill Gosper wrote:> \, _1\phi _1(q;q z;q,z)=\frac{z}{\left(\frac{1}{q>> z};\frac{1}{q}\right)_{\infty }}-z+1
--------------- Puzzling. In Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, I see http://gosper.org/mathwurst.png which seems comparable to http://dlmf.nist.gov/17.5 How about http://texify.com/?$\, _1\phi _1(q;q z;q,z)=\frac{z}{\left(\frac{1}{q z};\frac{1}{q}\right)_{\infty }}-z+1$ ? Maybe q-series are just irretrievably ugly? --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun