I wonder if that would limit you to the very simplest of math.
LaTeX notation lets you type math without the ambiguity of parsing text. And you can render a lot of it in Unicode
(See Unicodeit.net).
I would not want to type math in markdown notation due to loss of fidelity. Also LaTeX is like SQL: it’s there, everybody knows it, and it works. Any effort to displace it will end up reinventing it badly imho.
I think you could say literally all the exact same things about Markdown and HTML.
> I wonder if that would limit you to the very simplest of ~~math~~markup.
> ~~LaTeX~~HTML notation lets you type ~~math~~markup without the ambiguity of parsing text.
> I would not want to type ~~math~~markup in markdown notation due to loss of fidelity. Also ~~LaTeX~~HTML is like SQL: it’s there, everybody knows it, and it works. Any effort to displace it will end up reinventing it badly imho.
I mean the lack of Unicode support for superscripts would basically make this futile, but then you could say the same about the extreme limitations of Markdown tables.
edit: I forgot that HN doesn't support markdown strikethroughs. You get the idea.
LaTeX notation lets you type math without the ambiguity of parsing text. And you can render a lot of it in Unicode (See Unicodeit.net).
I would not want to type math in markdown notation due to loss of fidelity. Also LaTeX is like SQL: it’s there, everybody knows it, and it works. Any effort to displace it will end up reinventing it badly imho.