Line notation is a

typographical Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and ...

notation system using

ASCII ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because ...

characters, most often used for

chemical nomenclature A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Th ...

Chemistry

Cell notation Cell notation or cell representation in chemistry is a shorthand method of expressing a reaction in an electrochemical cell. In cell notation, the two half-cells are described by writing the formula of each individual chemical species involved i ...

for representation of an

electrochemical cell An electrochemical cell is a device capable of either generating electrical energy from chemical reactions or using electrical energy to cause chemical reactions. The electrochemical cells which generate an electric current are called voltaic o ...

* Dyson / IUPAC (1944) * Hayward (1961) *

International Chemical Identifier The International Chemical Identifier (InChI or ) is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the we ...

(InChI) * Wiswesser Line Notation (WLN) (1952) *

Simplified molecular input line entry specification The simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) is a specification in the form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. SMILES strings can be imported by most molecule editors f ...

(SMILES) * Smiles arbitrary target specification (SMARTS) * SYBYL Line Notation (SLN)

Mathematics

Mathematical markup language Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide W ...

Music

GUIDO music notation GUIDO Music Notation is a computer music notation format designed to logically represent all aspects of music in a manner that is both computer-readable and easily readable by human beings. It was named after Guido of Arezzo, who pioneered today's ...

Chess

* Forsyth–Edwards Notation {{DEFAULTSORT:Line Notation Notation Chemical nomenclature Musical notation