Now all I want is inline TeX.
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 years agoLemmy supports subscript! H~2~O~2~ displays as H~2~O~2~.
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 years ago
I do quite like how clear TeX is. The curly braces make it completely unambiguous how everything is supposed to be parsed, which means even though it’s a little more awkward to write, it’s still a lot easier to write if your comments are getting more complicated. Plus it’s so much easier for the parsing libraries to get right.
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I just love how universal it is. Sure, it has its flaws, but its strength is how many different applications use it. Once you know how to write TeX, you can express any equation you want clearly and understandably, an opposed to trying to write it with Unicode. Bonus points for how easy it is to add TeX rendering to the web with libraries like KaTeX (my personal favourite) or MathJax. I was able to add TeX support to my blog in 10 minutes.
I’m a bit of a sucker for TeX as might be apparent from my infodumping. If anyone’s as passionate and doesn’t know of it yet: You should try the texnique.xyz game. It’s a timed TeX typing game. I can get up to 70-80 points in it fairly consistently :D
marcos@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I just love how universal it is.
Lol!
Half of the stuff people expect to work is library code that isn’t even bundled at the default TeX context. Most of the symbols don’t even come packaged with the TeX interpreter.
Somebody should really make a “standard TeX” and LaTeX should adopt it.
ADTJ@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Your example doesn’t work for me but the one above is shown in superscript
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Oh that’s quite weird. What client is that?
teejay@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sync
readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br 2 years ago
It does not work in Boost as well
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shows as superscript on Memmy.
T4V0@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Works on Voyager at least.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
H~2 O~2
theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 2 years ago
Hey @ljdawson@lemmy.world this formatting doesn’t seem to work in Sync :)
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 years ago
You need to surround the text. H~2~O~2~ = H~2~O~2~.
qaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Your example is also rendered
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Huh? I know some clients fail to properly display superscript and subscript (which shouldn’t be a problem since it would be the same for my text as for the above text anyway), but I didn’t think there were any clients that would choose to render code snippets as formatted text. Anyway, here’s a screenshot of how it should look:
qaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Thanks, it seems to be a bug with the Thunder app.
onion@feddit.de 2 years ago
Also Infinity
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Worked in Voyager iOS at least, very cool
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Neat
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 years ago
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PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 years ago
!technicallythetruth@lemmy.world
exscape@kbin.social 2 years ago
And on kbin it shows as strikethrough, so the 2s are crossed out.