Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX

Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by behindmyscreen on Saturday February 17, 2018 @07:44PM (#16403741)

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.

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by k_bx on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:40AM (#16405222)

You can definitely do that in Typora (unless I miss something what exactly you meant).

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by behindmyscreen on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:50AM (#16406573)

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.

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by k_bx on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:13PM (#16407281)

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.

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