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Latex has its purpose for high quality and fully controllable templating. Does nota try to achieve the same? Latex, however cluttered its syntax is, benefits a
by cookiengineer 4y ago
Latex has its purpose for high quality and fully controllable templating. Does nota try to achieve the same?
Latex, however cluttered its syntax is, benefits a lot from strong tooling that has matured over the decades.
So I'm wondering what the plans are for nota, given that it is a subset of HTML and a subset of latex (judging from reading the examples).
Why not use commonmark? The dynamic argument is kind of invalid, given that markdown.js and other parsers exist and are used heavily on social media web apps and sites.
If the feature gap can be identified as bringing latex to the web: why not implement something like latex.js, which could be embedded in web browsers similar to how pdf.js changed the web?
- wcrichton 4y agoNota can express any HTML document. It uses KaTeX for math, so it is as expressive as KaTeX. The goal isn't really to compete with lightweight markup languages like Markdown. There are plenty of those. The goal is to provide a language for writing complex, interactive documents like academic papers. It isn't as simple as bringing LaTeX to the web. There are many things that LaTeX cannot do or express (e.g. like a tooltip popping up when you click on a reference to a definition). The goal of Nota is to make things like that possible.
- qwerty456127 4y agoI once felt like I'd like to learn LaTeX (unrelated to math/science, just for casual typesetting). I gave up in half an hour as it became vividly obvious to me it will take a life to master. To me it seems the most alien language I ever seen.
- xigoi 4y agoIt's not that bad if you ignore all the stuff you don't need.