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by wangchow 3463 days ago
To the contrary, as someone who hasn't used TeX at all I find it somewhat hard to read the plain-text. The $$$ have more visual weight than the actual formulas.

Kind of interesting to see some alternatives and note the visual weight. The back-ticks are by far the best in my opinion. Too bad they are taken by the code blocks! Semicolons are nice though--kind of like a LISP comment.

@@ x^2 + 4x = 10 @@

%% x^2 + 4x = 10 %%

<< x^2 + 4x = 10 >>

$$ x^2 + 4x = 10 $$

`` x^2 + 4x = 10 ``

'' x^2 + 4x = 10 ''

"" x^2 + 4x = 10 ""

;; x^2 + 4x = 10 ;;

\\ x^2 + 4x = 10 //

?? x^2 + 4x = 10 ??