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Tangential: syntax-highlighting math! This is the first time I’ve seen it. Not yet sure what I think about it, but I can definitely see the allure.

viscousviolin 3y ago
It's easy on the eyes and it can make reading lots of equations less awkward if done correctly. I remember finding out this was possible while I was working on an assignment in Latex - it looked amazing. It takes a little bit of work to colour in equations but I hope more people start doing it (including me, I'd forgotten about it for a while)
tetha 3y ago
Yeah, I like it. I used this as a tutor in more finicky exercises when it becomes really important to keep 2-3 very similar, but different things apart. It takes a bit of dexterity, but you can switch fluently between 3 different whiteboard markers held in one hand while writing, haha. I am kind of wondering if a semantic highlighting makes sense as well. You often end up with some implicit assignment of lowercase latin, uppercase latin, lowercase greek letters and such for certain meanings. Kinematic - xyzt for position in time, T_i(I_i) for the quaternion or transformation representing a certain joint of a robot.
rendaw 3y ago
Pedant-man on the scene: this is just highlighting since the highlighting isn't derived from syntax.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  Which makes me wonder what that would look like and would it be helpful? But there's already such complex and varied typography in math I wonder if it would be kind of redundant. E.g. you don't need matching parentheses to be colored when they already come in different sets of matching heights.
andrewprock 3y ago
It's been around for a long time (centuries?). In most textbooks, you'll get different semantics for italic and bold faces. Modern textbooks with color printing often use color in semantic ways.

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Tangential: syntax-highlighting math! This is the first time I’ve seen it. Not yet sure what I think about it, but I can definitely see the allure.

by nathell 3y ago

viscousviolin 3y ago
It's easy on the eyes and it can make reading lots of equations less awkward if done correctly. I remember finding out this was possible while I was working on an assignment in Latex - it looked amazing. It takes a little bit of work to colour in equations but I hope more people start doing it (including me, I'd forgotten about it for a while)
tetha 3y ago
Yeah, I like it. I used this as a tutor in more finicky exercises when it becomes really important to keep 2-3 very similar, but different things apart. It takes a bit of dexterity, but you can switch fluently between 3 different whiteboard markers held in one hand while writing, haha. I am kind of wondering if a semantic highlighting makes sense as well. You often end up with some implicit assignment of lowercase latin, uppercase latin, lowercase greek letters and such for certain meanings. Kinematic - xyzt for position in time, T_i(I_i) for the quaternion or transformation representing a certain joint of a robot.
rendaw 3y ago
Pedant-man on the scene: this is just highlighting since the highlighting isn't derived from syntax.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  Which makes me wonder what that would look like and would it be helpful? But there's already such complex and varied typography in math I wonder if it would be kind of redundant. E.g. you don't need matching parentheses to be colored when they already come in different sets of matching heights.
andrewprock 3y ago
It's been around for a long time (centuries?). In most textbooks, you'll get different semantics for italic and bold faces. Modern textbooks with color printing often use color in semantic ways.