Helptry

Hello, I would claim that there is no de facto standard in wikipedia. Look into Turing machine page both kinds of type setting is used all over the page. People use type setting depending on their ease in a situation or their abilities. I have edited 30-50 articles related to automata theory. I have found that html typesetting is easier to use. I think both kind of type setting has its place. Sometimes very complicated formula can not be written in html then latex is the choice and for simple mathematical expressions latex is overkill. Theoretical computer science on Wikipedia is in very bad state. CS pages in general have very low quality of writing. It needs a lot of ground work. We can not really talk about an existing standard yet. I think that clarity of writing makes a page popular rather than bold typesetting. (Ashutosh Gupta (talk) 21:15, 25 May 2011 (UTC))

Hello, I would like to discuss the issue. First of all I understand that LaTeX syntax (occassionally) creates (inline) images of different size than the surrounding text, and that these images can render the page quite heavy upon loading. But in my opinion there are strong reasons to use LaTeX. It produces much more legible formulas thanks to typesetting, font and size. They are actually aesthetically better than the crowded HTML symbols. It greatly increases the speed with which one reads articles, picking up what is for interest at the particular moment, hence making those pages more useful and popular. Secondly it allows us better control of the mathematics written. Thirdly it is the de facto in all the rest of Wikipedia (wherever it is not it is being replaced). Even in neighboring premises Propositional calculus everything is in LaTeX, not to mention major articles such as Laplace transform, Differential geometry of surfaces and Turing machine. Last of these comments I would like to ask where is the discussion relating to this decision and which articles it concerns.

A simple viable alternative is to just write in LaTeX allowing any inline formulas which do not need to be generated as images to remain text. This way users are given the choice to select the preferred mathematics rendering from their preferences. (Helptry (talk) 20:00, 25 May 2011 (UTC))

I am sorry to undo your work but the automata theory articles are written in non-latex syntax. Latex syntax generally creates ugly and cumbersome pages. We chose to avoid latex format. I hope this change will not discourage you in future (Ashutosh Gupta (talk) 16:53, 25 May 2011 (UTC))

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