We've all heard about WYSIWYG but that just means your printer can
show what your screen shows. Nice but in the age of the net, WYSIWIS
is *much* more important -- What You See Is What I See.
By that I mean that I can have some confidence that what I'm sending
to you in email or posting for you on the web looks the same to you as
to me.
In an earlier post, http://tinyurl.com/6x3g7a
.. I discussed the difficulty of rendering Math Notation within blogs,
wikis etc.
This however, is a test to see if we can do Math in email. So we have
to try slightly different stunts. Most email clients support "rich
text". I'm not sure if this is standard enough, however, for the
Friam list.
So this is a test. I'm inserting an equation .. and image that renders:
E = -J \sum_{i=1}^N s_i s_{i+1}
..using the LaTeX web service:
http://www.codecogs.com/eq.latex
You can run it using
http://tinyurl.com/5o238w
and the results should give this image:
To test for WYSIWYG, I'm posting What I See in my mail client here:
http://backspaces.net/temp/Mail001.png
Do you see something similar? Can we use this stunt for math
conversations on Friam?
-- Owen
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