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0 pointskragen3mo ago0 comments

Thanks! It does better than I expected on tricky input like [0, 1/2). It seems like there are a lot of special cases, though. It does indeed remove parentheses from the output in some cases but not others.

Probably figuring out how to write things in AsciiMath is more trouble than copying and pasting them from Wikipedia though. (The alt text on equation images is the LaTeX source preceded with \displaystyle.)

How do you do \bigg(\big((4x + 2)x + 1\big)x - 3\bigg)x + 5 in AsciiMath? (((4x + 2)x + 1)x - 3)x + 5 makes all the parens the same size.

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xigoi3mo ago

Why would you want to manually set the sizes of parens? I always use \left \right when writing LaTeX (and having to do it is one of the reasons I hate LaTeX math notation).

kragenOP3mo ago

Because \left( ... \right) doesn't give very readable results in cases like that; all the parens end up the same size.

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