True, though I see it as possibly analogous to Pollen's relationship to HTML — when you're working with boilerplate structures (e.g., <p> and <br>) you can let Pollen take care of them.
But when you want to insert literal chunks of markup because of their specialness or complexity, you can do that too. OTOH, you're right that finding a productive level of abstraction to aim for in the software is an open question (and one I don't feel qualified to answer). > On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Shrutarshi Basu <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a meta-point though, In my personal experience, X-as-a-LaTeX-front-end > breaks down really easily when trying to do something non-trivial. > On Oct 5, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Leandro Facchinetti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suppose that, at best, Pollen could be a leaky abstraction—one would still > need to understand TeX and LaTeX. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
