Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:52AM
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> I wonder if it's gotten better since 2002-2004, which is when I used it a lot.
MS equation editor? It's got so much better! The version released when office 2007 came out allows a latex like syntax when writing equations. - still don't use it myself because that would require using ms office which was still broken in other ways when i last used it (2010).
Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
by joatmon-snoo on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:08PM
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Desmos is decent IME (am an u/g, so I've used it occasionally); I don't think I ever had serious issues with typesetting (backspacing between sub and superscripts is occasionally awkward, iirc), but navigating the site and using advanced features was always troublesome. I had to fallback to Googling for a specific Desmos calculator a lot.
Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
by paulddraper on Sunday March 26, 2017 @11:12PM
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I've used mathquill. Thanks so so much for open-sourcing it.
I think I remember MS being better in some edge cases. OTOH, I haven't used it in so long maybe that speaks for itself.
Re:AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
by jwmerrill on Sunday March 26, 2017 @11:54PM
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It was open source before we started using it, but we're friends with the creators, so I can pass on the compliment.
I'd be curious to hear what you think about the equation editor in Desmos[1] (full disclosure, my employer).
We use an open source WYSIWYG typesetting library called MathQuill[2]. The keystrokes you use are very similar to AsciiMath, but the result is direct editing of the typeset math. E.g. you type '_' to move into a subscript, '^' to move into a superscript, '/' to create a fraction, 'sqrt' to create a radical, etc.
I believe that I can edit much faster with this interface than with Microsoft Equation Editor, and that it's approximately similar difficulty to learn. But I'm biased.
[1] https://www.desmos.com/calculator
[2] http://mathquill.com/