On 06/30/2010 06:14 AM, Adrien Guillon wrote:
I've perused wikipedia a bit, and I really don't like how algorithms look there. The appeal of the use of LaTeX, is mostly for the use of boolean algebra and set theory symbols.... although sometimes other symbols like floor or ceiling would be highly useful.
Unicode does have those; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_mathematical_operators_and_symbols
The main area where plain HTML + Unicode fails for mathematical typesetting is notation requiring fancy vertical layout, such as matrices, fractions or binomials. Algorithmic code rarely uses those, making plain HTML a feasible solution there.