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by CJefferson 2038 days ago
Honestly, I think we could, and should, do much better.

If people generally moved on from LaTeX (which is a whole other argument, and one I've had, and lost, on several occasions) to something with more semantic content, it would be much easier to make papers where it was easy to change the style of formatting, make it clear which symbols are "the same", etc.
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alexvoda 2038 days ago
> which is a whole other argument, and one I've had, and lost, on several occasions

Care to link to it if it's available? I am curious to read that debate.

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CJefferson 2038 days ago
Nothing concrete, I occasionally moan about it on Twitter and here, and in person, for example here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856184

Ironically, given some of the discussion we've been having, the biggest problem with LaTeX is that it is, once compiled into a PDF, extremely non-accessible and that's very hard to fix (to really understand why it's hard to fix, you need to look at how LaTeX works inside, it's a rewriting system and at no point has anything like a semantic description of the maths).

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