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The TeX Pestilence (Why TeX/LaTeX Sucks)
- PaulHoule 7y agoIt reminds me of the time I took a 1 credit class in TeX and John Shipman marked me off a point because I wrote a self-modifying macro.
- mindcrime 7y agoI have no comment one way or the other on whether or not Tex/LaTex should be considered a "pestilence". But I will point out, for anybody not following the issue, that MathML[1] support on the web should be fairly ubiquitous soon. Why? Because Chromium is, barring some highly unforseen circumstance, getting MathML support. Igalia has been developing the code, and the upstreaming process is already underway[2]. Given that Firefox and Safari already support MathML, and assuming that neither Chrome nor Edge go out of their way to intentionally disable/break it once it is fully landed in Chromium, then we should soon be in a world where the 4 most popular browsers all have MathML baked in. Of course there are MathML detractors who will argue against the notion that this is a Good Thing™, but speaking for myself, I look forward to the widespread availability of native in-browser MathML support. [1]: https://mathml-refresh.github.io/ https://mathml-refresh.github.io/ [2]: https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2019/10/31/mathml-in-chromium-upstream-process-started/ https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2019/10/31/mathml-in-chromium...