On 5/15/2016 10:06 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
On 15 May 2016, at 20:42, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
On 5/15/2016 8:31 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
there will always be some kind of escape
Hopefully from TeX as well. :-)
you can use ms word (which has tex like math but with a gui)
That falls far short, though there mathematicians using that too, thinking TeX
has too a steep learning curve. Perhaps there is an open source alternative.
but eventually typesetting will become a niche and end up in the arts but i
will probably not live long enough to see that happen
From the point of computer language design, TeX is not very good. One of the
pitfalls of macro programming is that it gives the impression of lambda
calculus efficiency without having it so one ends up spending a lot of time
figuring out trivialities, which is why eventually was added, I gather.
it's not that bad .. the tex language has a certain charm that one needs
to get accustomed to (as does metapost) ... and, combined with lua it's
even more fun
also, the lack of an upright alphabet in unicode will always make some 'x' in
the input either math of text so one also needs to indicate where math starts
and ends
As far as Unicode is concerned, the ASCII and Greeks ranges are the upright
ones. But those ranges will be used for math italic as long as there are no
efficient input methods. Designing ones own keyboard map is a chore with so
many math styles.
well, law, week i heard about emoticons in different colors as well as gender
so maybe some day we will have a math upright alphabet to distinguish it from
regular latin
Doubt it, but I am checking it out:
http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2016-May/003632.html
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