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you sure it’s crisp? Not another word starting with cr and ending with p?

Seriously, TeX is a bad maths language [http://xahlee.info/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html], surrounded by a terrible document markup language, wrapped in tooling straight from the 1980s, plus a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong.



> a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong

Been there, experienced that. Like this one poor guy who dared to ask at the TeX.StackOverflow help desk—"what can I do to get this and that vertical line in my table", only to get lectured by one acolyte, "Oh noes, don't, vertical lines bad, only horizontal lines in tables, proven to be the only way to go". Which totally throws centuries of finely typeset mathematical, astronomical and nautical tables out of the window while not answering the question.

To be fair, there are quite a few people on the TeXSO that go to incredible lengths to give extensive answers—expositions really—to hairy questions ('hairy' being a technical term here which translates to 'daily' in the context of TeX).


haha, I don't have much experience with mathematical equation writing in LaTeX, I just like how the words and document look. So I can't say much about this.

Have you looked into Groff >> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/527864/latex-vs-grof...

I have heard atleast one people say that, the math syntax is much more elegant in groff as opposed to LaTex.




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