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by emiljbs 4407 days ago
The weird thing is that some people feel that they need to find all kinds of justifications for why not having an infix syntax is OK.

Arithmetic in Lisp-style is excellent and easy to read. Thing is that programming languages infix math is ridiculously bad compared to what I can do with paper and pencil. It's really just a really bad form of imitation and to me that irks me way more than just doing it in Lisp. Math written in PL:s is hard to read in general and I'd love to see an Emacs package that lets you show an inline picture as you mark a mathematical expression of LaTeX rendering it as 'regular' math.

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AUCTeX has support for displaying inline pictures of LaTeX math expressions in Emacs. I just checked and it even says so on the homepage ;) http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
I know :)

I meant "take Java math code and convert into LaTeX, display inline", the first part is the missing one!