LaTeX based chat

Re:LaTeX based chat by alien_acorn on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @08:16PM (#840372)

Maple will take input like

  y=int(x^2,x=0..100)

and turn it into pretty print. That seems more natural than LaTeX. LaTeX is for getting exactly what you want on paper, at the expense of ease of typing.

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Re:LaTeX based chat by yummyfajitas on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @11:50PM (#840581)

Is that harder than $\int_{0}^{100} x^2 dx$? Your version is only 4 chars less, and mine looks more like the actual math...

LaTeX has the added advantage that most mathematicians have it in muscle memory. (I have latex in emacs muscle memory, so I have a hard time using mathim.)

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Re:LaTeX based chat by cracki on Thursday September 24, 2009 @08:26AM (#841005)

i find the non-latex version better because it has fewer $ and \ and {}

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Re:LaTeX based chat by tesseract on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:02PM (#840423)

Mathematica will do

    In[1]:= Unevaluated[y = Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 100}]] // TeXForm
    Out[1]= y=\int_0^{100} x^2 \, dx

which in that case is rather pointless but I suppose it could be helpful in the case of something more complicated.

Maybe Maple can do that too; I don't know since I've only ever used Maple for one 20-minute session and don't have a copy handy.

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Re:LaTeX based chat by jacobolus on Thursday September 24, 2009 @01:46AM (#840679)

Yes, it can, and the input syntax is much nicer, even:

  > latex('y = int(x^2, x=0..100)')
  
  y=\int _{0}^{100}\!{x}^{2}{dx}

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