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Are you specifically talking about the math syntax within latex, or actual latex commands in general? Because I would disagree on the latter one. (But I'm a com
by ketzu 6y ago
Are you specifically talking about the math syntax within latex, or actual latex commands in general? Because I would disagree on the latter one. (But I'm a computer scientist not a mathematician.) uglyness is porbably hard to discuss as it's just a matter of taste.
I personally consider compile times that are measured in seconds for "simple" tasks slow (here's the question of it being an inherent problem of the space).
- magicalhippo 6y agoAs someone who did both math courses and programming courses, I found LaTeX to be awesome for writing equations. It felt so natural I would more often then not solve equations in LaTeX directly. However when writing stuff for my comp-sci courses, man what a chore. Pseudo-code was a PITA, as was getting decent tables of results where I wanted. So for a lot of those I threw my hands in the air and finished the paper using Word. It might have been me, I try to learn as I went along, but it certainly was not as easy as math.
- danielscrubs 6y agoMarkdown (via Pandoc) with the tex_math_dollars extension for math is the bees knees.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoIn a rewritten from scratch Latex, I would only make minor changes to the syntax of Latex. I don't think you can have another syntax that is overall better - compromises will be made somewhere or the other. Compile time of course, can be fixed by reimplementing the whole compiler in a modern language.
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