Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
by flogic on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:20PM
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As someone who would "need" this only once or twice every few years at best. I vastly prefer the idea of using this. I will likely never care about nitty gritty typesetting details. Getting things to "remotely legible" is more than enough for me.
If there's a demographic between those two groups, then I might simply have a blind spot, but... whose problem does this solve, and what is that problem? Because just saying "LaTeX is too much effort", the immediate counter-question is "for whom, exactly?" because it won't be people who already use LaTeX, or need reliable maths typesetting on a daily basis, and it probably isn't for people who need to use maths maybe a handful of times a year. So who's left, and what problem do they have where asciimath makes life easier?