Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?

[Sven Utcke]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> I see this stuff in math articles in wikipedia -- uses some kind
> of ascii math-notation.  What is it?  

Could you give an example?

> Likewise, no fun trying to *read* the stuff.  Emacs have a way
> to make it look pretty?

Well, if it is something which has been around for a while, calc could
do it --- something like converting between:

(1 + x) / sqrt(x)

{(1 + x) / \sqrt{x}}

\frac{1 + x}{\sqrt{x}}

    1 + x
    -----
     ___
    V x

and so on.  Which, of course, is still pretty ugly...

Does this help?

Sven

PS: Installing calc on modern Emacsen requires a simple patch which
    can be found somewhere hidden in the Emacs documentation...
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