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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by auggierose on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:51AM (#24744004)
It is because TeX provides the only acceptable output quality right now; also, TeX is like the C of math type setting. So whatever your improved solution is, it will have to include TeX at least partially, like MathJax or KaTeX.

It is what you get when you have a genius like Knuth taking math typesetting seriously. To get something better, you need somebody similar sitting down and take another serious stab at it.

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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by setr on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:54AM (#24752322)
Well, the complaint is mostly surface-level; I'm not sure if there's anything really stopping obe from treating tex as an engine/compile-target, and entirely changing the language that way

Afaik other *tex systems do it in the form of suites of tex macros, but no one really attempts to deviate from tex altogether

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