zslastman comments on Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 16 October 2015 07:12:58AM 1 point [-]

I don't know either of a program that solves your problem. But writing a transcompiler from mathematical markdown (mathdown?) to Latex should not be that difficult in F#. It should be a fun excercise, if you write the formal grammar.

Comment author: zslastman 16 October 2015 07:58:21AM 0 points [-]

Yeah I can imagine doing that all right - I wouldn't actually mind writing in latex even, the problem is the lag. Building a latex document after each change takes time. If the latex was being built in a window next to it, in real time, (say a 1 second lag would probably be fine) there'd be no problem. I'm not looking to publish the math, I just want a thought-aid.

Comment author: tut 16 October 2015 04:50:44PM 1 point [-]

I believe that there is an editor called lyx that lets you do this.