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I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on ea
by PatronBernard 1y ago
I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on earth would they change it?
- gsinclair 1y agoI think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.
- Maken 1y agoYou will end up with just a different escape character.
- cbolton 1y agoNo it really is much lighter, see my examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520
- _bent 1y agoconsidering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful