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by WorldMaker 1251 days ago
I think UnicodeMath [1] is really interesting and approachable and is a standard that Unicode themselves have been keeping an eye on/helping maintain. It takes advantage of the richness of Unicode in interesting ways that makes the formula encodings in plain text better resemble their formatted counterparts. (You just have to forgive that the standard originated from the Microsoft Office team.) The interesting thing to me that UnicodeMath partly implies is the idea that math formatting could be considered similar to "regular font rendering" in a similar way to how ubiquitous emoji have become.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....