Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Glossary

[Bob McElrath]

Simon Michael address@hidden wrote:
> >Could someone tell me why
> >
> >  **[Aldor]**
> >
> >doesn't show in boldface?
> 
> Hi.. Structured Text's ** doesn't work with brackets inside. You have to 
> use HTML tags instead::
> 
>  <b>[Aldor]</b>
> 
> It works as you'd expect in Restructured Text, which doesn't yet support 
> LaTeX (but might soon).

ReStructured Text is not an appropriate choice because:
    1) ReST treats anything within $dollar signs$ as RCS keywords and
    strips it (but this can be turned off)
    2) ReST has its own use for the backslash \.  It is an escape
    character that prevents ReST processing.  This seems incompatible
    with \begin{stuff}\end{stuff} and \[\] etc. as appears in latex.
    3) Math can in principle be included via the ReST directive syntax:
        .. latex:: x^2
    however this is very un-latex like.

So, like any input syntax, it is always possible to put math in and
process it with some tool, but it requires a perverse and un-latex like
syntax.  (see also MediaWiki, twiki, etc.)

--
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]

    "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country
    democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every
    kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they
    might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one
    meaning." -- George Orwell

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