[R] Math symbols in email - not completely OT

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Marc R. Feldesman wrote:

> What is the generally accepted way to put certain math symbols into plain
> text email?
>
> For example, how does one convey the "is exactly equal to", "is
> approximately equal to", and "delta" symbols in a standard text-based (e.g.
> Courier) font?
>

I tend to use TeX symbols, so \approx and \delta.  The sci.math.
newsgroups seem to avoid the \ and so would write delta and either approx
or something like ~=.


	-thomas


Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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