Adding LaTeX writing support

[PirateHunterr]

I made few posts here before coming here. It is very hard to format the post. For newbies, it could be a use it or leave it decision.

All I am suggesting is, it would be great if we could have LaTeX Processors which could support easy writing.

Posts on the forum would look great and readers will have one more reason to stick to bitcoin forum. I am a researcher and have a lot of experience with LaTeX, I can say that it would be a good thing to implement. It will help Nerds adopt to the Forum faster.

Good work with emojis.  

[alpha_wisdom]

If it could first support markdown, nobody will argue.

[Code29]

Assuming that Epochtalk ever goes live I would love to see this feature as well. Although I doubt there's many users here who are experienced with (La) TeX, it would allow creating beautiful threads for these who are used to it.

[AmoreJaz]

not many users here are familiar with the use of LaTeX as not all here are making technical docs or are educated to use this kind of software. but it is really good application in technical writing.
had experienced with this software and i can say, this will make your life easy especially if you are making your thesis or dissertation.

[nullius]

I intended to ask for this long ago.  Yesterday, in the Wall Observer, a mathematically inclined connoisseur of fine typography incited me to speak up for L^AT_EX-lovers and other T_EXnicians.  So yes, there is demand for this!


On a related note:

Satoshi uses British English and inserts two spaces between sentences.

I believe we may safely presume that Satoshi would appreciate proper spacing.

Although the usage of two spaces between sentences is a dirty hack for devices which lack variable-width spacing, it is proper to separate sentences with space greater than an interword space; and the founder of this forum obviously knew that.  Whatever the new forum software does, it must not collapse intersentence space to the size of interword space—lest it mangle Satoshi’s own posts!

Were it not for an idiotic decision made by HTML’s designers in 1993, browsers’ behaviour would follow that of T_EX:  Use intersentence space between sentences, and interword space between words.  Alas!  T_EX spacing was discussed on www-talk; but people were too lazy, and they did not care to DTRT.

If the new forum software were to support L^AT_EX as a markup language, then it may be easier to find some way to support proper spacing.  Some way—somehow.  HTML (and nowadays, CSS) are crudely limited.  A web browser in 2021 cannot do what T_EX did in 1978 to uphold centuries-old traditions of quality typesetting.