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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by TheRealPomax on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:53PM (#20192945)
It's always fascinating how people stick with LaTeX instead of the alternatives that passed LaTeX by over a decade ago. At the very least use XeLaTeX, which was "what if LaTeX, but it actually understood unicode, and the fact that maybe people want more than just English".

The future isn't LaTeX. It's the much better, native unicode, normal font using, flavours of TeX, like XeLaTeX or LuaTex.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by Tomte on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:26AM (#20193986)
The bigger selling point for XeLaTeX, in my opinion, was "what if a mortal could change the font?" and "if we make that easy, let's go the whole way and use OpenType files itself, not some LaTeX specific auxiliary metrics files that need to be generated".
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by TheRealPomax on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:59PM (#20258950)
As the original author of the ucharclasses package: absolutely.
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