Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”

Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b... by nerdponx on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:14PM (#23339826)

Leave TeX alone, just build better tools on top of it.

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Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b... by jfk13 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:06PM (#23340375)

While it's possible to build a lot of things on top, maybe it'd be worth making some minor updates to the core TeX engine itself, to bring it into the world of Unicode and OpenType fonts...

Oh, there are a couple of such candidates, actually, built with very different philosophies: there's XeTeX, intended to graft Unicode and OpenType support onto TeX with as little disruption as possible, such that it "just works" with minimal effort; and there's LuaTeX, which "deconstructs" TeX to give you an infinitely-flexible typesetting toolkit that can do just about anything, if you can figure out how to wield it.

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Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b... by nerdponx on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:04PM (#23341056)

Good points.

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Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b... by derefr on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:59PM (#23340311)

I mean, that's what they were proposing; LaTeX is "on top of TeX", and LaTeX is what they were suggesting should be fixed.

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Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b... by nerdponx on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:04PM (#23341063)

Yes, but I was responding to a comment about TeX.

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