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Hello all,

Some of these nests are unavoidable. For example, in TeXmacs, there are
different syntactical meaning of mathematical symbols. In LaTeX, one writes,
say, $a\dot b$, while in TeXmacs, sometimes one needs to specify that this
dot is a multiplication-like operation.

On the other hand, if one is ready to sacrifice these finer information, then
it seems possible to introduce several abbreviations to simplify some nests.
Note that in LaTeX, \begin{document} is also a kind of nest.

The crucial question is whether it is worthwhile for the developers of TeXmacs to
implement such. I don't think that this is a crucial obstruction of TeXmacs. I think
that people more-or-less tend to judge that everybody *should use LaTeX*, no matter how
TeXmacs "improves" its usability for text editors.

Best wishes,
Frank

On 7/12/21, Christopher Dimech wrote:

Yes. The difficulty stems mainly from the deeply nested or complex data
structures in the source,
in ways similar to what I see with xml.

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• arXiv, Basile Audoly, 07/10/2021
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