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From: "Colin Baxter 😺" <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: "Sébastien Miquel" <sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu>
Cc: , org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Depreciating TeX-style LaTeX fragments
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 09:46:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7a4j9mt.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d89ed13-328b-dd8a-c93d-78c64e8f90c9@posteo.eu> ("Sébastien Miquel"'s message of "Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:08:11 +0000")

>>>>> Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu> writes:

    > Hi, With respect to readability, I only mean to point out that the
    > $…$ syntax is one less character, and that the \(\) characters are
    > quite overloaded.

Indeed. Compare something like

$g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)$

with

\(g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)\)

Backslash city! I know which one I'd prefer to read.

    >> this is a good opportunity to point out that $/$$ are very much
    >> second class citizens in LaTeX now, no matter what you may see in
    >> old documents.

    > The posts that you quote are 10 years old. As per [0] (2020),
    > there will be no LaTeX3. Nor is it only old documents that use the
    > $…$ syntax : looking for learning ressources (see [1]), everything
    > that I find uses it. That includes The Not So Short Introduction
    > to LaTeX [2] (2021) and
    > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics.

Ah, LaTeX3 - whatever happened to that?

    > Although I have no evidence of this, my expectation is that the
    > majority of tex users use the $…$ syntax (it is in fact widely
    > used outside of tex: in most markdown flavors and texmacs for
    > example). I also expect that a significant proportion of tex users
    > are not aware of the \(…\) syntax. I think here of users that are
    > less tech literate than most of this mailing list.

Agreed.

Best wishes,


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-16  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-09 18:02 Org Syntax Specification Timothy
2022-01-15 12:40 ` Sébastien Miquel
2022-01-15 16:36   ` Depreciating TeX-style LaTeX fragments (was: Org Syntax Specification) Timothy
2022-01-16  8:08     ` Sébastien Miquel
2022-01-16  9:23       ` Depreciating TeX-style LaTeX fragments Martin Steffen
2022-01-16  9:46       ` Colin Baxter 😺 [this message]
2022-01-16 11:11         ` Tim Cross
2022-01-16 13:26         ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-16 14:43           ` Colin Baxter 😺
2022-01-16 15:16             ` Greg Minshall
2022-01-16 17:45         ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-01-16 12:10     ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-16 14:30       ` Anthony Cowley
2022-01-18  0:54 ` Org Syntax Specification Tom Gillespie
2022-01-18 12:09   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-19  1:22     ` Tom Gillespie
2022-01-19 11:58       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-25  9:09 ` Bastien
2022-09-25 21:28   ` Rohit Patnaik
2022-11-26  2:41   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-26  6:24     ` Bastien
2022-11-26  6:05   ` Ihor Radchenko

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