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[Idea] Advanced Line Type: LaTeX

Alex // nytpu alex at nytpu.com

Mon Aug 2 01:23:54 BST 2021

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On 2021-08-01 07:48PM, Andrew Thorp wrote:

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$ \frac{1}{2} \text{ Hello from } \LaTeX !

```This specific format would break several of my articles where Irepresent shell commands and their output like so:```$ unzip capsule.gpubArchive: capsule.gpub inflating: index.gmi inflating: math-gemlog-post.gmi inflating: math-gemlog-post-supplement.tex$ xelatex math-gemlog-post-supplement.tex...$ okular math-gemlog-post-supplement.pdf &```

Adding soft math support would go a long way in expanding the types of

content which can usefully be supported by geminiI think this is yet another situation where serving any MIME type youwant comes in handy. You can serve LaTeX or PDFs or MathML or HTML w/MathJax through Gemini perfectly fine and advanced clients could renderthem or just pass them through to the users' preferred application. Ifwe're going to add markup that requires pulling a full TeX engine into aclient that wants to be fully spec-compliant then we might as well addgroff-style line-based italics and other markup that's more useful forgeneral-purpose writing than mathematical markup is.

If you really want to have mathematical markup in your gemtext document,then I'd recommend providing a supplementary .tex file that has niceversions of all your formulae. As an alternative, you could addrelatively simple formulae to the gemtext in a style similar to the "adhoc Unicode" formulae shown here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_markup_language#ExamplesUnicode has like thirteen blocks focused on math so it's not like you'dbe missing out on symbols to choose from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode

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