Notices by mostlypat (mostlypat@mastodon.social)

@screwtape Do you mean how LaTeX tends to use unicode symbols? I find that 99% of LaTeX is actually positioning and resizing symbols (something that is tricky with just plaintext)

Interestingly, the AucTeX mode in Emacs has a cool feature where it displays things like subscripts, superscripts, prettify-symbols, as you go

(I might have misunderstood your question!)

I've always had a sort of low-level hatred and appreciation for LaTeX. I've been thinking recently it would be cool to just write maths in plain-text, I've even made some diagrams and whatnot with ASCII.

Turns out Plan9 has some hotkeys for unicode stuff, including some maths symbols!

cat /lib/keyboard

(Notes from "All of Statistics")

#plan9 #9front #maths #tex

hey i found the image!

(send from 9front on a dell inspiron mini 10, via ssh to a web server using links and brutaldon because i couldn't get mastodon to work on mothra)

i might set up my pi zero as a tiny server so i can use the web from here when i need to...

#9front #plan9 #oldcomputerchallenge