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LaTeX is great, but it's obsolete (bad Unicode support), and is output to a problematic format (pdf).
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
LaTeX is great, but it's obsolete (bad Unicode support), and is output to a problematic format (pdf).
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoUnicode support in LaTeX has not been an issue since XeTeX became mature technology, so over a decade already.
- leephillips 6y agoExactly. You can even markup math using Unicode. Here is Stokes' Theorem: \[ ∫_Σ ∇ ⨯ 𝐅 ⋅ dΣ = ∮_{∂Σ}𝐅⋅d𝐫 \] That will turn into a typeset version when run through LaTeX (using the unicode-math package). More details at https://lwn.net/Articles/657157/ https://lwn.net/Articles/657157/. Also, any format except PDF is problematic. PDF is the only (widely used) format that will preserve formatting.