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by yig 1251 days ago
A longer and more accurate title would be "Compilable Lightweight Markup Language for Mathematics" [0]. Using Markdown instead is like saying "Uber for X".

Our follow-up project HeartDown (linked) explores embedding I Heart LA in markdown documents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

2 comments

This project is a good initiative. But I was also expecting Markdown to make a cameo appearance somewhere. "Compilable Markup for Linear Algebra" would be pretty clear to me.
Ok, we've changed to that title above. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra")

I just realized I wrote "Mathematics" instead of "Linear Algebra" in the suggested longer and clearer title. That was a mistake.
Ok, we've narrowed it back to that.