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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by megous on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:05AM (#18865170)
1999 and it doesn't seem like, from other answers.

The thing is that time invested in learning superior alternatives is already spent, and there's no point taking the risks just to try for no reason.

Just like I will not create another website in FrontPage.

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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by kej on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:22AM (#18865936)
They did completely overhaul the equation system in Office 2007 so that you edit them with unicode text instead of the proprietary OLE editor from previous versions. The document [1] describing how they use unicode characters to structure mathematical expressions is pretty interesting, even if you never touch MS Word again.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath.pdf

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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by com2kid on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:30PM (#18867281)
Word also supports LaTeX for equations! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear-format-equat...
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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by megous on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:15PM (#18866519)
The compilable C++ snippet certainly looks interesting. It answers the question I always had, about why some languages added unicode identifiers.

It doesn't look all that bad.

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