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            I do quite like how clear TeX is. The curly braces make it completely unambiguous how everything is supposed to be parsed, which means even though it’s a little more awkward to write, it’s still a lot easier to write if your comments are getting more complicated. Plus it’s so much easier for the parsing libraries to get right.

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              I just love how universal it is. Sure, it has its flaws, but its strength is how many different applications use it. Once you know how to write TeX, you can express any equation you want clearly and understandably, as opposed to trying to write it with Unicode. Bonus points for how easy it is to add TeX rendering to the web with libraries like KaTeX (my personal favourite) or MathJax. I was able to add TeX support to my blog in 10 minutes.

              I’m a bit of a sucker for TeX as might be apparent from my infodumping. If anyone’s as passionate and doesn’t know of it yet: You should try the https://texnique.xyz game. It’s a timed TeX typing game. I can get up to 70-80 points in it fairly consistently :D

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                I just love how universal it is.

                Lol!

                Half of the stuff people expect to work is library code that isn’t even bundled at the default TeX context. Most of the symbols don’t even come packaged with the TeX interpreter.

                Somebody should really make a “standard TeX” and LaTeX should adopt it.

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                  Yes, universal. Many websites, apps, communicators etc. implement a flavour of TeX. They will differ in some more complex features or commands, but your $a^2+b^2=c^2$ will work. And that’s the point. For most times, you’ll just want to communicate some simple concepts.

                  We could do better, for sure. For example, there’s been some development around Typst, which tries to resolve many of those quirks, annoyances, and inconsistencies that come with TeX. It makes sense, since TeX evolved rather naturally and outgrew what it was initially comprised to be. While I’d love to see Typst come far, for now TeX is something that I take for granted, which perhaps better encompasses my thoughts than the word “universal”.

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          Your example doesn’t work for me but the one above is shown in superscript

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            Huh? I know some clients fail to properly display superscript and subscript (which shouldn’t be a problem since it would be the same for my text as for the above text anyway), but I didn’t think there were any clients that would choose to render code snippets as formatted text. Anyway, here’s a screenshot of how it should look:

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      The setup is the same as another joke, where the second person asks for H2O too, which the bartender parses as H2O2, and gets served poison.

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    So does the would-be assassin expect the cops to say “Oh he asked for Hydrogen peroxide? Then it must be suicide!”

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      Or that the bartender will know what he’s talking about and would just serve a customer a glass of hydrogen peroxide as if it were a drink.

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    If I had to present this as an anti-humor joke:

    I’ll have H2O.

    I’ll have H2O… also.

    The water was very refreshing.

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    Why do Catholics kneel when they pray?

    Because there’s no syn elimination in the chair confirmation.