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In article <1992Sep30.195747.15980@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu
(Michael Zeleny) writes:
>... at this moment TeX has the advantage of being the
>de facto worldwide math typesetting standard in the academic circles.  So
>on the net which is fairly biased towards an academic audience, it is well
>suited to doing the work of lingua franca for mathematically oriented
>newsgroups.

A non-sequitur here - most news postings never get typeset.

That doesn't mean that TeX notation has no place in human-readable Ascii, but
there's no point in slavishly sticking to TeX if there is a visually clearer
non-Tex alternative (e.g. "->" for "\rightarrow"). The original posting was
about a proliferation of "\"s. They could normally be dropped (e.g. "Go"del" or
"G"odel", "x in X") with an improvement in readability and with the meaning no
less clear.

Steve Vickers.