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I don't really know the history here, but my guess is that Texinfo was made so that you could read it in the terminal, as well as get nice output for a printed manual (with TeX being the backend for that target). Here's the docs regarding putting mathematics into Texinfo: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Inserting-Math.html Anyhow, I think that formatting mathematics in plain text (typed in by a human) is a solved problem (LaTeX). Glad to see that Github's markdown now allows and renders it, and I've been grateful for a long while that Pandoc does as well. -- John