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Looks interesting and I could see this being adopted in limited situations. Most Latex users only use a tiny subset of its capabilities. Most non-math journals
by wenc 3y ago
Looks interesting and I could see this being adopted in limited situations. Most Latex users only use a tiny subset of its capabilities. Most non-math journals also easily accept non Latex manuscripts. The math part seems similar to Latex (without backslashes) which is important since most folks have built muscle memory there (not just for documents but also for typing math in other situations like Markdown docs and Mathjax or KaTeX websites)
The only issue is the ecosystem for specialized fields with their own typesetting requirements.
But I’m all for anything that is easier to debug than Latex.
That said I feel it will never truly compete with LaTeX in terms of adoption. LaTex is like SQL — it’s long in the tooth and has some minor design issues but represents something very fundamental that defies reinvention.