Math Notation in Gemini?

I second this. Serving the file as an appropriate type and letting the 
client decide is absolutely the approach. Rendering TeX in-line will mess 
up the readability of the plaintext for those rendering plain, not to 
mention open doors to further debasement of the standard.

The appeal of TeX integration is obvious, I use nothing else for document 
creation myself, but one person's TeX convenience is another person's 
tracking-cookie circus, so let's hold the line and stay focused! If we 
didn't allow in-line links and images, we're not to the point of even debating TeX.



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> Le 16 f?vr. 2021 ? 19:23, Jonathan Lane <> jon at dorsal.tk> > a ?crit :
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> ?Recently I found some people interested in Gemini as a research sharing 
format. Their one requested extension was inline rendering of mathematical 
notation via Groff MS or TeX syntax. Would this be something that could be 
handled as a special client side handler for links to documents containing 
the fragments, like how Lagrange handles inline image expansion on link 
select? I do see the appeal, but I don't want to introduce the weight of 
Roff or MathML or TeX into the Gemtext format spec.
>

Could it simply be serving a TeX file as application/x-latex (or another 
mime type) and let the client/user open it with any suitable app?

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