>>>>> Sébastien Miquel <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, With respect to readability, I only mean to point out that the
> $…$ syntax is one less character, and that the \(\) characters are
> quite overloaded.
Indeed. Compare something like
$g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)$
with
\(g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)\)
Backslash city! I know which one I'd prefer to read.
>> this is a good opportunity to point out that $/$$ are very much
>> second class citizens in LaTeX now, no matter what you may see in
>> old documents.
> The posts that you quote are 10 years old. As per [0] (2020),
> there will be no LaTeX3. Nor is it only old documents that use the
> $…$ syntax : looking for learning ressources (see [1]), everything
> that I find uses it. That includes The Not So Short Introduction
> to LaTeX [2] (2021) and
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics.
Ah, LaTeX3 - whatever happened to that?
> Although I have no evidence of this, my expectation is that the
> majority of tex users use the $…$ syntax (it is in fact widely
> used outside of tex: in most markdown flavors and texmacs for
> example). I also expect that a significant proportion of tex users
> are not aware of the \(…\) syntax. I think here of users that are
> less tech literate than most of this mailing list.
Agreed.
Best wishes,
