From: "John Gabriele" <jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
To: "'Oliver Demetz' via pandoc-discuss"
<pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: History of the math syntax
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:46:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09be80a5-7851-4739-b1ad-1418e31d2126@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmk88xxr.fsf-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>
On Fri, May 20, 2022, at 3:06 AM, Albert Krewinkel wrote:
> GitHub recently introduced support for the `$`/`$$` Markdown math
> syntax: <https://github.blog/2022-05-19-math-support-in-markdown/>
>
> This made me wonder when and how this TeX syntax made its way into
> Markdown. I tried to dig through the history of old projects like pandoc
> and MultiMarkdown, but didn't get very far. All I could find is that
> pandoc has been supporting TeX math syntax for at least 15 years.
>
> Maybe someone here can satisfy my curiosity?
My understanding is that TeX equations have been in markdown since about the same time as that chocolate bar ended up in the jar of peanut butter. :)
Aside from that, I think I remember seeing TeX-formatted mathematics in GNU's Texinfo format.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-20 7:06 Albert Krewinkel
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2022-05-20 11:35 ` Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin
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2022-05-20 11:37 ` Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin
2022-05-20 17:46 ` John Gabriele [this message]
[not found] ` <09be80a5-7851-4739-b1ad-1418e31d2126-jFIJ+Wc5/Vo7lZ9V/NTDHw@public.gmane.org>
2022-05-20 19:30 ` Jeremy Theler
[not found] ` <6d21260464c325b05285477edbb53c1f30ddbc1c.camel-24em0bpozeFWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2022-05-21 1:03 ` John Gabriele
2022-05-20 18:01 ` John MacFarlane
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