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

Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by adrianratnapala on Sunday March 26, 2017 @06:21PM (#13963665)

I used to think it was about as good as could be expected for a graphical editor (which meant it was rubbish). And then I found LyX which was infinitely better. That was years ago and MS might have caught up by now.

And yet, despite how much I like LyX, I keep using real LaTeX instead -- especially when there is complex maths. That's because the ability to create macros in maths eventually outweighs everything else readability-wise.

And I'm afraid the same logic applies to AsciiMath. Is there some equivalent to

    \newcommand[1]{vr}{\mathbf{r_#1}}

Or am I just going to have to use somethng `bb"r"_1` for every instance? That's a lot less readable than `\vr1`.

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by acrefoot on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:44PM (#13964067)

I find TeXmac's equation editor to be an even faster WYSIWIG UI than LyX's.

For example, a λ is just 'l'+tab.

Simarly, you can cycle through other symbols. For b: b->β->

Sadly, TeXmacs hasn't gotten as much love as it deserves: I find it way better than jupyter at producing notebooks/papers that involve math, interactive code, and prose.

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by jessaustin on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:33PM (#13971498)

TeXmacs hasn't gotten as much love as it deserves...

Ouch, no Ubuntu package since Vivid? The screenshots look OK... is this worth building from source?

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by mhei on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:54AM (#13965879)

LyX actually has support for math macros, or is that support just not ergonomic for you? Not certain what the best way would be to support macros in a graphical math editor.

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Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics by adrianratnapala on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:32AM (#13966476)

Never noticed them.

I mean you can always use evil-red-text. But then what is the point LyX?

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