I worded this badly. I probably should have said that human authoring was not a concern while designing the language. MDN has a specific page for authoring Math

I worded this badly. I probably should have said that human authoring was not a concern while designing the language. MDN has a specific page for authoring MathML[1] where they suggest you probably don’t want to write them by hand and suggest you should use tools that generate MathML instead. This is really no different from SVG. The design of the SVG markup language did not take considerations of people writing SVG images by hand, instead they designed the language to be a handy compiler target. Which it is, you can draw nice SVG images from a GUI like inkscape as well as nice graphs from a javascript library like d3. 1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/Authoring https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/A...