The future of education is plain text

Re:The future of education is plain text by com2kid on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:43PM (#14546169)

The "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics" standard[0] can do this just fine. :)

a_0+1/(a_1+1/(a_2+1/(⋱+(1/a_n ) )))

Past that into an editor that accepts the spec, and you'll get something like http://imgur.com/a/7hBwv

Disclaimer: I work @Microsoft improving on some math features, and we are the main implementors of the spec. Which makes me sad, since it is an open spec and it is really powerful!

[0]http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf

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Re:The future of education is plain text by partycoder on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:58PM (#14547538)

PDF and OOXML are also open specifications.

Try to implement them though, you will run into a lot of issues.

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Re:The future of education is plain text by Pxtl on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:57PM (#14546298)

I'm curious about that one - was the space necessary?

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Re:The future of education is plain text by com2kid on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:27PM (#14546617)

I just tried it out in Word, apparently it isn't. :)

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