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tunnuz
14y ago
It would be nice to consider how auto-completion actually biases the real distribution of key-presses, e.g. I wouldn't expect closing parenthesis or brackets to be pressed as often as their opening counterparts.
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tunnuz
14y ago
I somehow agree with you, LaTeX formulas are simply easy to type, while typing MathML syntax is a bit involved. However, as I somewhere pointed out, I'm thinking at HTML5 as a product, not necessarily to be authored manually. A Textile/Mark
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14y ago
By the way, this article is from 2005 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
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14y ago
I'm thinking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML
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14y ago
I want to break the "LaTeX is the only possible alternative" point here, so your comment is very important to me. LaTeX is BUILT for typesetting, this doesn't necessarily mean that is GOOD for that. Sure, as far as we are all accustomed to
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14y ago
Several thoughts. The first is about footnotes (I assume that you refer to \ref{}s and \cite{}s). In LaTeX you need to define references in advance, e.g. in a .bib file most likely, and then reference them. Similarly you can do in HTML5, w
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Ask HN: is HTML5 ready to takeover LaTeX in academic publishing?
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15y ago
Loved this ad :)
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15y ago
It just says "sorry".
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15y ago
Got our rejection letter. That wasn't unexpected, but a bit sad: we had a couple of access to our demo page which made us hope for the best. Anyway, for us the application was a great opportunity to ask ourselves the right questions.
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15y ago
Very nice, though I would appreciate a clear "Next" button somewhere, and the table of content seems empty.