Sure thing, a quick search yields Asciimath which seems at least at first glance as huge improvement in the syntax department: http://asciimath.org As for LaTeX in general, Markdown beats it soundly in most aspects. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
What are the syntax differences to https://asciimath.org? - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I did some Googling, and thought AsciiMath is the answer (simply because it also contains "Ascii" in the name). Turns out it's a different solution. Source: over 2 years ago
Math syntax is a bit more challenging, because I'm sure no one wants 12 even if that would make the grammar simpler. Attempts to do this are thin on the ground: as you note, Markdown and other similar tools completely punted on math. AsciiMath is one idea, although not what you want in a full-fledged typesetting language. Source: over 2 years ago
I like to use asciimath for this, though I realize that it's not as powerful as LaTeX or MathJax. There's a decent Rust port: asciimath-rs. Source: over 2 years ago
There's this: http://asciimath.org/ I wish someone would integrate this into pandoc so I could use it in rmarkdown. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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