>>>>> Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miq...@posteo.eu> writes:
> Hi, With respect to readability, I only mean to point out that the > $…$ syntax is one less character, and that the \(\) characters are > quite overloaded. Indeed. Compare something like $g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)$ with \(g=\lim_{\delta m\to 0}(\delta F/\delta m)\) Backslash city! I know which one I'd prefer to read. >> this is a good opportunity to point out that $/$$ are very much >> second class citizens in LaTeX now, no matter what you may see in >> old documents. > The posts that you quote are 10 years old. As per [0] (2020), > there will be no LaTeX3. Nor is it only old documents that use the > $…$ syntax : looking for learning ressources (see [1]), everything > that I find uses it. That includes The Not So Short Introduction > to LaTeX [2] (2021) and > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics. Ah, LaTeX3 - whatever happened to that? > Although I have no evidence of this, my expectation is that the > majority of tex users use the $…$ syntax (it is in fact widely > used outside of tex: in most markdown flavors and texmacs for > example). I also expect that a significant proportion of tex users > are not aware of the \(…\) syntax. I think here of users that are > less tech literate than most of this mailing list. Agreed. Best wishes,