> Sticking with the ASCII representation does have one real thing going for it: it visually represents the way you type it. IMO, this is more of an issue with

> Sticking with the ASCII representation does have one real thing going for it: it visually represents the way you type it. IMO, this is more of an issue with special symbols being tricky to type. I used to be symbol-phobic like that until I learned how to configure how the Compose-key behaves in my system. Now all the symbols I commonly use (greek letters, funny arrows and some math stuff) are very easy to type. I went ahead and replaced the latex macros in my thesis with their unicode equivalents and things became immensely more readable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key https://github.com/hugomg/xcomposer https://github.com/hugomg/xcomposer