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It is because TeX provides the only acceptable output quality right now; also, TeX is like the C of math type setting. So whatever your improved solution is, it
by auggierose 6y ago
It is because TeX provides the only acceptable output quality right now; also, TeX is like the C of math type setting. So whatever your improved solution is, it will have to include TeX at least partially, like MathJax or KaTeX.
It is what you get when you have a genius like Knuth taking math typesetting seriously. To get something better, you need somebody similar sitting down and take another serious stab at it.
- setr 6y agoWell, the complaint is mostly surface-level; I'm not sure if there's anything really stopping obe from treating tex as an engine/compile-target, and entirely changing the language that way Afaik other *tex systems do it in the form of suites of tex macros, but no one really attempts to deviate from tex altogether