On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 20:15:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
A lot of the complaints about Ddoc clearly stem from people not
realizing they can create their own macros. It's like not
On the contrary, the complaint is that you can create your own
macros and loose the semantics of the markup.
I looked at the possibility to create a high quality javascript
based front end to phobos documentation last year and the messy
macro-markup/generated html killed the project before it got
started.
Math notation uses a ton of special characters, it's one of the
reasons why Unicode was invented. Limiting yourself to
non-Markdown ascii is extremely limiting. Heck, look at this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=latex+math+symbols&biw=1282&bih=897&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=pqqlVLbcM5TkoATv9oGABg&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQsAQ
LaTeX is not a standard. It is a quick'n'dirty macro-hack over
TeX.
If you want to mark up math, use HTML5's MathML and use MathJax
for browsers that don't fully support it.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.mathjax.org/sponsors/
