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0 pointsemseetech11mo ago0 comments

Could there be a compromise where the verbosity is kept but the key points are highlighted, grouped or presented in a different color.

I would certainly appreciate if math papers were more explicit and "hand-holding" but understand why trained mathematicians would find that tedious.

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JadeNB11mo ago

> Could there be a compromise where the verbosity is kept but the key points are highlighted, grouped or presented in a different color.

There's no reason except inertia why there couldn't be. Lamport actually proposed a system for this: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-how-to-write.....

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