[Wikipedia-l] Parsing TeX

[Toby Bartels]

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 at math.ucr.edu>