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marcos@lemmy.world 5 months agoI 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.
Opisek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, universal. Many websites, apps, communicators etc. implement a flavour of TeX. They will differ in some more complex features or commands, but your
$a^2+b^2=c^2$will work. And that’s the point. For most times, you’ll just want to communicate some simple concepts.We could do better, for sure. For example, there’s been some development around Typst, which tries to resolve many of those quirks, annoyances, and inconsistencies. While I’d love to see it come for, for now TeX is something that I take for granted, which perhaps better encompasses my thoughts than the word “universal”.