There's a good reason not to use \[…\] that I didn't appreciate last night: escaping brackets to prevent forming links. I'm starting to think $$…$$ is the only real option for display math.https://twitter.com/stevecheckoway/status/971664676185673728 …
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Replying to @RichFelker
To $$…$$ or to \begin{equation*}…\end{equation*}? Because definitely to the former.https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503/why-is-preferable-to …
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Replying to @stevecheckoway
The answers there all amount to "because latex sucks and can't distinguish semantics from formatting". Markdown should be better. :-)
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Replying to @RichFelker
Well, TeX is to blame there. LaTeX has \( \), \[ \] precisely because $ $ and $$ $$ aren't easy to work with. (Although \( \) is much less useful in my opinion.)
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Replying to @stevecheckoway
Everything tex is awful except for the notation, which you can throw a good implementation like katex at.
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My point was that redefining macros rather than factoring style from content in some clean way is just a fundamental flaw of tex.
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