Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
by behindmyscreen on Saturday February 17, 2018 @07:44PM
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The problem is, if you do a lot of formula writing in a narrative, most WYSIWYG editors that support LaTeX formula rendering are just not efficient. I want to type my thoughts, start a formula block, write my expression, end the block, and continue going. You can't do that in most WYSIWYG editors.
You can definitely do that in Typora (unless I miss something what exactly you meant).
Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
by behindmyscreen on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:50AM
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When I think of WYSIWYG editors, I see presentation and content being mixed.
Unless Typora has figured out how to get remove the need to locate the insertion point of a formula, open an editor, then submit the data to render an image that is placed inline or made into a block. If it has figured that part out then props to them for making it easier to write mathematics in an accessible editor.
For formulas it just re-renders formula as you type it, no WYSIWYG magic where it's over-complicated. For regular Markdown it's WYSIWYG.
Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
by MajorSauce on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:40PM
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I just wanted to thank you for this discovery.
I am in the middle of writing a document and gave Typora a try, seems to fit the middle ground between "basic" formatting and Latex.
Typora is a great WYSIWYG Markdown editor that uses MathJax to render LaTeX mathematical expressions.