01/19/2008, 08:34 AM
andydude Wrote:It has become large.
Hey Andrew, you put really a lot of work in. Thanks for your contribution.
It seems however that we have to discuss what to put in the FAQ to keep it in a reasonable size.
Basically a FAQ shell prevent people starting to deal with this topic from reinventing the wheel, by clearly and elementary explaining the basics and give known answers to frequently asked questions or frequently occuring problems.
This should be our directive for designing the FAQ.
We should also be careful to not explain things based on our advanced background but instead being very explicit, elementary (and easy to read) and give a lot of examples.
As such I would seperate a (formula, theorem) reference from the FAQ.
I would ban the more exotic notations into a history chapter.
Also note that the box notation is not commonly used but rather our invention. The box tex-notation is also very difficult to use without predefined commands (for example between the tex-tags in this forum). I think we need a simple TeX-representation like a sub- or superscripted operator symbol (together with srt, slg, hrt, hlg for the inverse functions). Also we need for everything an ASCII equivalent which people can use when posting (for the non-tex-experienced people).
I append my own tex-source.