Sounds vaguely familiar

By Hans Nowak · October 21, 2008 at 9:01 am · Tags:

“Even in an introductory text I got the sense that the authors were trying to make themselves look smart at their readers’ expense. A page into a new chapter and they’d whip out a completely new symbol (a crippled-looking M, or a Q doubled-over in agony), surround it with a constellation of superscripts and italic subscripts, then incant “… it is therefore obvious that…” and be off into the galactic void, sky-writing with half of the goddamn Greek and Egyptian alphabets.  I felt stuck in mud, dumb as a sack of bricks, and seriously doubting that given the authors unsupervised access to TeX was a good idea.”

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