AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics

Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by jostylr on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:55PM (#13962837)

This is about a decade old before MathJax and back when its predecessor, jsMath, was still pretty new. It was targeting students the most, not those who use latex professionally. I used it to create TidlyWiki notebooks for my students and it was something they actually did!

The goal was also about being translated into MathML. LaTeX is not necessarily concerned with mathematical sense while MathML (sometimes) is. I think this was also a motivation.

And, quite frankly, replacing \frac{a}{b} with a/b is a huge win for ease of writing basic math.

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by TheGorramBatman on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:02PM (#13962885)

MathJax integrated asciimath long time ago: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/asciimath.html

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by Animats on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:24PM (#13963039)

The site has no date information, but says "currently this only works in Firefox 3+ and Safari 5.1+", so this goes back many years.

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by amathprof on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:57PM (#13963536)

The original native AsciiMath script was limited in support, but AsciiMath via MathJax has wide browser support. We maintain the original script still, but most people use AsciiMath through MathJax.

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