You can't compare html and css with LaTeX.
MathML is nowhere near being generally usable, and html is for web browsers, not printed material.
Maybe the css style sheets for printed material will come along well enough one day, but nearly everything serious that has been published in the last decade that contains a substantial amount of math formulae was done in TeX. There just isn't a reasonable substitute out there.
I have to agree.
I checked out a bunch of TeX and LaTeX books, and this is the best one I've seen.
That being said, TeX and LaTeX NEED a replacement. The biggest problems I have are the fact that there aren't enough syntax conventions. Sometimes you need an '=' sign after a command, sometimes you dont. Sometimes the [] optional parameters come after the {} required parameters, sometimes not. Also some of the command names are bizarre, its impossible to remember all the commands you need, because of a lack of convention.
Don't get me started on how bloody hard tables are to format the way you want them. HTML tables are 100 times more intuitive and 1000 times more powerful. Tables in LaTeX suck.
But there is nothing that can compare to TeX's equation type setting abilities.
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You can't compare html and css with LaTeX. MathML is nowhere near being generally usable, and html is for web browsers, not printed material. Maybe the css style sheets for printed material will come along well enough one day, but nearly everything serious that has been published in the last decade that contains a substantial amount of math formulae was done in TeX. There just isn't a reasonable substitute out there.
I have to agree. I checked out a bunch of TeX and LaTeX books, and this is the best one I've seen. That being said, TeX and LaTeX NEED a replacement. The biggest problems I have are the fact that there aren't enough syntax conventions. Sometimes you need an '=' sign after a command, sometimes you dont. Sometimes the [] optional parameters come after the {} required parameters, sometimes not. Also some of the command names are bizarre, its impossible to remember all the commands you need, because of a lack of convention. Don't get me started on how bloody hard tables are to format the way you want them. HTML tables are 100 times more intuitive and 1000 times more powerful. Tables in LaTeX suck. But there is nothing that can compare to TeX's equation type setting abilities.
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