Math Notation in Gemini?

[filip at tilde.club]

Thank you! This seems to exactly what I was looking for.


On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Alex // nytpu wrote:

>> However, much of mathematical notation (a lot of diagrams (category
>> theory), for example) can be reasonably well rendered as ASCII art.
>> The only problem is that it might be to tedious to manually set so I
>> was wondering - is there some TikZ-to-ASCII or at lease
>> diagram-to-ASCII script?
> Previously on the mailing list someone mentioned aamath[a] to render
> formulae:
>
> A_OPR = x*sqrt(x^2-1)/2 - int(sqrt(t^2-1), t = 1 .. x)
>
> will turn into:
>
>                        x
>            ______     /
>           / 2        |    ______
>       x \/ x  - 1    |   / 2
> A    = ----------- -  | \/ t  - 1 dt
> OPR        2         |
>                      |
>                     /
>                      1
>
>
> For diagrams, I'm sure if you could convert it to dot language[b] (more
> common than one might think, lots of software supports it) then it'd be
> trivial to convert it to ascii, here's a utility I found after a quick
> search: https://github.com/ggerganov/dot-to-ascii
>
>
> a: http://fuse.superglue.se/aamath/
> b: https://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html
>
> ~nytpu
>
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