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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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