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Re:The Art of LaTeX: Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delig... by Shorel on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:57AM (#34300727)
As ugly as it may appear to you, it is so much more readable than MathML Core.

TeX is, in fact, still better than all the alternatives to represent mathematical equations in plain text created so far.

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Re:The Art of LaTeX: Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delig... by charlieyu1 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:24PM (#34302710)
MathML is not a writing format, it is an output format that is designed to be machine readable.

And I think most people complain about the non-equation parts of LaTeX.

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Re:The Art of LaTeX: Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delig... by patrick451 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @09:16PM (#34305921)
I guess readability is in the eye of the beholder, but I find latex much more readable than html and usually more readable than reStructuredText. Markdown might be more readable, but it's so limited it shouldn't even be in conversation.
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