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by arnsholt 4110 days ago
That's probably never going to happen (for any Markdown-based project).

As you probably know, TeX is a full programming language (albeit an odd one), which means that to compile (La)TeX to Markdown, Markdown needs to support all the features of TeX, which means that it has to be Turing-complete. Not to mention the fact that parsing TeX is kind of nuts too.
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chriswarbo 4110 days ago
There's no need to convert all TeX back to markdown; the converter only needs to recognise the sub-set of TeX that it produces.

If anyone edits the TeX to fall outside that sub-set, it's reasonable to just embed those parts verbatim in the resulting Markdown.

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j2kun 4110 days ago
Exactly. And I have a very strong feeling that without the ability to collaborate implicitly (at least on the text/math mode part), no replacement for LaTeX will catch on in my community (mathematics).
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