Technical Discussion on VPM

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 10 March 2014 00:14, Robert C. Helling <helling at atdotde.de> wrote:
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> On 09 Mar 2014, at 19:46, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ou could use LaTex, unless Robert hates it.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
>> "It is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of
>> scientific documents"
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>> s = \int_{0}^{10}x^2\,dx
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> I love TeX (actually, there is a github branch in my account that used TeX to print subsurface log pages).
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> But since it’s been meant to be read by humans rather than machines I would simplify it a bit (fewer curly braces and backslashes etc). So I would write the above equation as
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> s = int_0^10 x^2 dx = 1000/3
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> Differentiation you can write with a prime (if there is only one independent variable, as in our case probably time) or as
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> d/dt
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> And for better readability don’t write multiplication with a *, just leave a space as in
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> (a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2 a b + b^2.
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forwarded to the ML.

lubomir
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