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[Christopher Dimech <address@hidden>]

> 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.
>