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>`^{content}` for superscripts I have to use the longer and more painful `<sup>content</sup>` This is superficial, and one could trivially write a markdown sty
by javajosh 11y ago
>`^{content}` for superscripts I have to use the longer and more painful `<sup>content</sup>`
This is superficial, and one could trivially write a markdown style pre-processor if you wanted the former syntax (and I would be highly surprised if someone hasn't already done that).
>I should always have a Unicode table on hand to copy/paste from for special characters that I can't write using my EN_US keyboard
One way or another, you need such a table. For TeX the table consists of ASCII symbol names. (Note also that unicode characters do indeed have an ASCII representation using character entity syntax, although it's ugly.)[0]
>HTML short...TeX long...The two domains just have different requirements.
What justification do you have for this claim? HTML was designed by TBL for researchers to share papers, and there is plenty of long-form content written in HTML.
TeX is great. HTML is great. They'll probably both be around for a long time. There are trade-offs between them, but not the ones you've identified. (In particular, TeX's great strength is similar to PDF in that it's output is totally stable. Browsers by contrast are notoriously dynamic and won't, in general, produce the same output.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML
- verandaguy 11y agoThis is superficial, and one could trivially write a markdown style pre- processor if you wanted the former syntax That feels just a tiny bit circular. It's like if I wrote a huge set of C++ preprocessor macros so that I can write my code in JavaScript, have the preprocessor do its magic and transpile it down to plain C++, and then have it compiled down to machine code. One way or another, you need such a table. For TeX the table consists of ASCII symbol names. Not necessarily. It's not difficult to memorize the commands that produce commonly used symbols; `\pi`, `\sum_{}^{}`, `\int`, `\frac{}{}`, `\times`, etc. They're all really, really mnemonic with a consistent naming scheme, and if you don't like a symbol's command, you can always alias it to a new command in the preamble. I'll give you the last part though, that was my mistake - but I did meant that the environments used to render HTML as well as certain associated standards are shifting towards their more common uses, which are along the lines of websites and blogs rather than research papers.