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why tho

• techdragon 9y ago
  Not everyone wants to learn another formatting language.
  • majewsky 9y ago
    Law of leaky abstractions, though.
  • shawnz 9y ago
    So the solution is to create a new one?
    • posterboy 9y ago
      Using common ascii notation of basic maths it's hardly new in any surprising way.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    Which is why it would be great if more things generating formatted mathematical output accepted UnicodeMath [0], which is about as minimal a formatting language as possible (and, as a result, maximally readable as plain text.) Unfortunately, I don't know anything that uses it besides Microsoft's formula editors (in various Office apps.) [0] http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/ http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/