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In article <3085@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>Is LaTeX sufficiently common to use as a medium?  It has just about everything
>you might want, and it is high-level enough that you can still read the source
>(well, most of the time, anyway :-)
>
>\sum_{i=0}^p a_i y_{n-i} = \sum_{l=0}^q b_i \xi_{n-i}

I think it's going to come down to a war between TeX and eqn.  Each is more
common in some environments.  Expressive power is similar; the eqn version
of the above is (assuming I've read the TeX correctly):

sum from i=0 to p a sub i y sub {n-i} = sum from l=0 to q b sub i xi sub {n-i}

Sticking strictly to readability, and disregarding the who's-got-which-
software issue, I think eqn comes out ahead -- fewer silly backslashes and
fewer artifacts of the odd character set Knuth used.
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