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sugartex
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kiwi0fruit / sugartex

sugartex

SugarTeX is a more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX. Fast Unicode autocomplete in Atom editor via https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/atom-sugartex-completions

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What it is

SugarTeX is a more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX. Fast Unicode autocomplete in Atom editor via https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/atom-sugartex-completions

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Observed mentions: 2018-05-28 15:31:45 UTC to 2018-06-07 14:55:48 UTC.

012342018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMay 282018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 22018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 7

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100% agree. But at least there is an example at the very end of the docs: https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex.... I don't find it readable, but it is an extreme example - it would sell the concept better to start with simple, effortlessly superior cases. I'm not sure about this whole concept of unicode. It is more readable for sure, but harder to write (to remember which unicode to use, and how to get it). Perhaps surprisingly, java allows unicode identifiers etc, so I experimented with variables like δx and δt, and even ½i for PIC grids in CFG. It's cute, but I'm not really sure it's a good idea.
In Show HN: SugarTeX – readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX
SugarTeX is a more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX. Designed to be used instead of $formula$ insertions to Markdown. I use Markdown with Python code blocks for document programming via [Pandoctools](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/pandoctools) (like R-Markdown). Both Python and Markdown are very readable languages. Unfortunately LaTeX is not like this. So I wrote SugaTeX extension+transpiler that is highly readable. In order to achieve this it heavily uses Unicode so that SugarTeX install instructions even have recommended monospace font fallback chains. [SugarTeX repo](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex) with description. Example of input to output conversion is at the end of [this PDF](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex....).
In Show HN: SugarTeX – readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX

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