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From: rdubey@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Rakesh Dubey - grad student)
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Subject: Math mode in LaTeX
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Date: 15 May 91 20:59:19 GMT
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Greetings,

I need to typeset a lot of material in which mathematical 
formulas are interspersed with text. Is it possible to define
something similar to $...$ for the text mode, so that I could use it
instead of \mbox{...} which really gets clumsy and takes too much
space. Right now I write $a \mbox{ or } b$ where it will be very
nice to have something like $a !or! b$. I believe formulas will be
easier to read this way. (The letter ! is just for example).

Thank you for your time,
Rakesh


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Rakesh Dubey
rdubey@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu