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>I disagree about using TEX, eqn or whatever.  When I read news, I typically
>do it on a VT100 type terminal (actually an emulation window).  Although I
>print some news, most I just read via readnews and then move on.  While it
>would be nice to include instructions on how to generate high quality
>equations, for general purpose reading it might be easier to just fudge
>it:
>            n
>           --- 
>            \       -1/n
>            /   a e      + 6
>           ---
>           i=5
>
>is not that unreadable.  I agree that the really complicated expressions
>can't be shown like this, but most equations we write could be.  Using the
>gobbledygook of eqn, TEX or whatever, means that I have to save the file,
>edit and massage it, format it and print it to screen or paper.  


I like the above - now, does someone have a program that will convert
something like

sum(i=5,n,a*e^(1/n)+6)

into the above ??  Doesn't mathematica use something like the first
equation when it
prints out something the user typed in like the second equation ? 
Perhaps someone
could write a quick program ;-) to translate so that we can type it one
way and include
it into mail in the "easy to read" form.


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P. Allen Jensen
Georgia Tech, School of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta, GA  30332
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