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by JacobAldridge 6180 days ago
Yes, noticed this also for the Ampersand symbol. LaTeX (which I'd not previously been familiar with) must have a specific purpose, which seems great and appears to be made greater by this nifty tool.
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xel02 6179 days ago
LaTeX is a typesetting program (related to TeX which was made by Knuth). Its quite popular in academia (sciences at least) because it handles equations really well.

Its analogous to a markup language in that it is not a WYSIWYG typesetting program.

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eru 6179 days ago
LaTeX is also useful [1] for controlling Mars rovers. See page 5 of the current Monad Reader (http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/8/85/TMR-Issue13.pdf).

[1] OK, not actual useful, but it can be done.

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