Re:Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done b...
by stared on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:27PM
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Oh, it is a lot of effort. Just pouring a lot of money and hoping that we can get through warts (without losing the best parts) of LaTeX is unreasonable.
Even now, other libraries use BibTeX, which would be the easiest to replace in some more standardized format (JSON or YAML, so it is easy to load from web, directly).
And in fact, there are projects:
- https://www.mathjax.org/, and its much faster (and less feature-complete) variant https://katex.org/
- http://www.luatex.org/ - I guess this is the closest to what you mean
- https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ (using Knitr; it can generate HTML or PDFs)
etc, etc.
Even now, other libraries use BibTeX, which would be the easiest to replace in some more standardized format (JSON or YAML, so it is easy to load from web, directly).