Tarquin wrote:
TMTOWTDY I suppose...
What does that mean?
Toby Bartels wrote:
>I'm not about to get upset if you change by
<b> to ''', however,
>and could be convinced to follow your lead exactly if you work at it;
>I'll only get upset if you mess with <var>, as explained in another post
>(not yet made, or look on Jan's page).
I change <b> around the article title in the
first sentence.
I do that too.
I haven't changed any <var> tags, though I
have created formulae myself
with '' around variables, because I'd seen it done like that.
The $$ for <var> idea is interesting, but I don't think it will make
formulae significantly easier on the eye in raw form.
I don't think that the '' version is easy on the eye either.
Easy on the eye would be a limited implementation of TeX
that would render the wiki input $$x^2 y = z_1$$ into HTML as
<var>x</var><sup>2</sup><var>y</var> =
<var>z</var><sub>1</sub>.
But that opens up its own whole new can of worms.
OTOH, $$x$$<sup>2</sup>$$y$$ = $$z$$<sub>1</sub> would be an
improvement,
and $$x$$^^2^^$$y$$ = $$z$$__1__ would be even better.
(This won't quite work, since ^^ and __ can't be interpreted as toggles,
but I'm not sure how to deal with that right now.)
-- Toby Bartels
<toby+wikipedia-l(a)math.ucr.edu>