Jan Hidder wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
LaTeX is hardly more easy for a technophobe to learn than HTML, and we don't want them to think that they can't edit a math expression without learning LaTeX.
Since all math will probably then be rewrittin in TeX anyway, that will be the situation anyhow.
That's exactly the situation that I want to avoid! Why *shouldn't* it be easy to edit a math expression without knowing LaTeX? That's the case now; you only need to know '' or <var> (depending on whether I've edited the page significanlty or not, and even this will become easier if we encode <var> as $$ or such). I'm all for a system that makes complicated math easier to edit (and easier to get right in the first place), but not at the expense of the simple math that is the majority.
-- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l@math.ucr.edu