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Re:Bringing MathML back to Chromium by vehemenz on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:23PM (#34331709)
MathML has more capabilities than the ad hoc notation of LateX simply in virtue of being XML-based. Whether these capabilities are ever realized is another question, but LaTeX had a pretty big head start and better tools.
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Re:Bringing MathML back to Chromium by andyferris on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:30PM (#34334340)
This confuses me... TeX and LaTeX by extension are entire programming languages, in terms of _capability_ MathML is to LaTeX what JSON is to Javascript - just a representation of the final output, rather than the logic to produce it.

That said I think just having a universal "target" format for formulae will make things much better (much like JSON itself is an "advancement" in it's own right, because of the easy interoperability it unlocks).

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Re:Bringing MathML back to Chromium by runarberg on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:52AM (#34340697)
Indeed. That’s the sense that I get as well. MathML is ultimately about rendering but not the language, but they had to pick a language, so they picked one that was easy to translate into, and had a nice mapping to the DOM structure.
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