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> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 at 9:07 PM
> From: "Frank" <address@hidden>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: arXiv
>
> 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.

If it is as you say, there is no civilisation. Then we have the opportunity
to introduce it to the people at arxiv.


> 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
  • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/10/2021
    • Re: arXiv, Frank, 07/10/2021
    • Re: arXiv, Basile Audoly, 07/10/2021
      • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
        • Re: arXiv, Massimiliano Gubinelli, 07/12/2021
          • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
        • Re: arXiv, Frank, 07/12/2021
          • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
            • Re: arXiv, Frank, 07/12/2021
              • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
        • Re: arXiv, TeXmacs, 07/12/2021
    • Re: arXiv, Giovanni Piredda, 07/10/2021
      • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
        • Re: arXiv, Giovanni Piredda, 07/12/2021

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