News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The future of education is plain text. Parent comment

Re:The future of education is plain text by Numberwang on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:22AM (#14545433)
There are plain text versions for that as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of education is plain text by grondilu on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:38AM (#14545585)
Not sure it's so simple. Is LaTeX plain text? Officially it is, but by the same standard so is PostScript or PDF.

Truly the limits are blurry. Even assembly code has an ASCII representation.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of education is plain text by vlasev on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:44PM (#14548463)
Well, plain LaTeX is quite readable, so IMO, it's good enough of a compromise. It does get difficult with a lot of parentheses though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of education is plain text by syndev on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:31AM (#14545517)
Which example did you have in mind?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of education is plain text by vortico on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @07:46PM (#14549659)
http://asciimath.org/ is the best one I've seen, by far.
[ Parent | on HN ]