This seems to make easy things easier and harder things really hard.
Kinda like https://www.lyx.org/Screenshots or using org-mode for latex. Convenient for simple matters and something you have to fiddle with or work around when you want to do anything more advanced.
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/img/preview-screenshot.p...
or fold-mode (shows unicode and abbreviations in place of commands)?
https://www.flannaghan.com/2013/01/11/tex-fold-mode
Changing the representation seems more sensible to me than changing the underlying file.
Also, while the a/b syntax is easier for easy cases, I shudder to think how a continued fraction might be type set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction
This seems to make easy things easier and harder things really hard.
Kinda like https://www.lyx.org/Screenshots or using org-mode for latex. Convenient for simple matters and something you have to fiddle with or work around when you want to do anything more advanced.