The future of education is plain text
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The future of education is plain text
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Re: The future of education is plain text
#2Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#3Plain text in what encoding, with what character set? We start adding implementation details and suddenly it's not as straightforward.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#4There’s no such thing as “plain text”.
Is this UTF-8, latin-1, 7 bits ASCII…?
Re: The future of education is plain text
#5Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
There are plain text versions for that as well.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#6What about the existing "standard", PowerPoint slides and PDFs? Although most of my notes could be plain-text, any graphs or figures need pictures. ASCII art doesn't cut it.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#7Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
Unicode has some symbols. But there is limited ability to arrange them freely.
e.g: representing a continued fraction in plain text seems a very futile exercise.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#8Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
Then, mathematical notation should be simplified.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#9Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
If you distribute things in Markdown with (e.g.) MathML markup, then the reader can format that nicely for display, with PlainText / Markdown being the distribution format.
Re: The future of education is plain text
#10Nope, because plain-text is incompatible with centuries of mathematical notation.
Then, mathematical notation should be simplified.
What do you think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck