Just as one is free to to transliterate
Greek in an Etext, one can use ASCII artwork formulas like:
---------
+ / 2
-b - \/ b - 4ac
x = ------------------
1,2 2a
This is probably a better choice for occasional formulas
simple enough to write out this way. But to produce Etexts of
historic scientific publications such as Einstein's "Zur
Elektrodynamik bewegter K”rper" (the special relativity paper
published in _Annalen der Physik_ in 1905), trying to render
dozens of complicated equations in ASCII is not only extremely
tedious but in all likelihood counter-productive; ambiguities
in trying to express complex equations would make it difficult
for a reader to determine precisely what Einstein wrote unless
conventions just as complicated (and harder to learn) as those
of LaTeX were adopted for ASCII expression of mathematics.
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