> I think we’ll find the discoverability of “text language on Adderall” outguns GUIs No way. Nothing can outgun typing a parameter into a box rather than the v

> I think we’ll find the discoverability of “text language on Adderall” outguns GUIs No way. Nothing can outgun typing a parameter into a box rather than the visual clutter of braces (or some other delimiter). What's more, maths notation often involves objects of different sizes, which isn't reflected in any fixed-width text language. Equations in my PhD were often 80% about the subscripts/superscripts if you read the raw LaTeX, with the most important stuff buried away; but when you look at the equation as rendered, or in a GUI, the most important bits are trivial to read off. > lyx as a hard to get into GUI I only suggest LyX is hard to get into because some people only get into it at a surface level, which it's actually very easy to get into but then you don't get all the benefits of LaTeX. Best case scenario is you know both LaTeX and how to use LyX, then you can spend 1% of your time writing bits of LaTeX (in the preamble, or using math macros [1], or directly including the odd snippet of raw LaTeX as a last resort (even then put them within an instant preview)) and 99% of your time using the GUI. [1] https://www.lyx.org/VisualTour#toc6 https://www.lyx.org/VisualTour#toc6