Conference rusure::math

443.0. "8 bit ASCII is as clear as mud on a VT100" by LATOUR::AMARTIN (Alan H. Martin) Wed Feb 19 1986 12:21

Re 442.9 (the start of a solution to the falling ladder problem).

OK, I figure that those blotches my VT100 printed in the last two formulas
were probably superscript 2's.  However, I think this conference is
going to become unreadable for me if this convention continues.

Wouldn't you folks rather lose the VT100 readership by them not being
able to understand your proofs, rather than by them not being able to
read them at all?

I don't mind if people use ** or ^ to represent exponentiation, or if
they put the exponents on the previous line.  Europeans can sign their
names with blotches scattered throughout - I'll cope.  But you can't
prove something if you can't communicate what you are saying, and I
have a terminal the only displays the lower 128 ASCII characters reliably.

I just noticed my terminal was /NOFALLBACK.  I'll see what turning that
on does for me, and delete this topic if I can cope.
				/AHM/THX

Nope, with or without fallback, a blotch is a blotch using VAX Notes.

How about it, folks?
				/AHM/THX