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"For documents whose source is likely to be shared or handed over to other pe ople, writing in TeX rather than expecting them to learn a new language is still g
by Syzygies 2y ago
"For documents whose source is likely to be shared or handed over to other pe ople, writing in TeX rather than expecting them to learn a new language is still good citizenship."
Conversely, my entire interest in Typst is have an input format more efficiently read by AI. We've passed the inflection point where one can responsibly only write for humans.
Typst is Markdown-adjacent, while PreTeXT is XML-adjacent. More characters but even easier for AI to process. I'd switch for the HTML and ePub support, but no syntax coloring for code blocks?
- patrick451 2y agoCalling writing for just humans irresponsible is quite the claim. Personally, I'd rather AI did not injest anything I write whatsoever. Not that there's much I can do about it.
- Syzygies 2y agoDo you have a car? Do you really want to wait for humans to reprogram air traffic control software unassisted, with no formal correctness guarantees? Your attitude is fine if you plan to walk everywhere.