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Apr 12, 2018 at 13:54 comment added Emilio Pisanty And this probabilistic estimate comes from a sample of size $N=2$? Can I suggest that it would be beneficial to give due consideration with suitable time and testing to the technical possibilities offered by the medium, particularly before you go off on a crusade to try and offer prescriptive approaches to the typesetting on other sites?
Apr 12, 2018 at 13:51 comment added Discrete lizard Mod @EmilioPisanty Well, perhaps always is too strong. But the unicode exponents don't match nicely with the TeX $O$ in my font, while the normal O matches fine. This is apparently not always a problem, as your other example shows, but I think this is problematic more often than not.
Apr 12, 2018 at 13:49 comment added Emilio Pisanty Can you clarify what you mean by "always looks suboptimal"? Say, pulling from your linked question, can you clarify in what ways $Θ(f) = Ω(f) ∪ O(f)$ ($Θ(f) = Ω(f) ∪ O(f)$) looks suboptimal compared to what you would get with "kosher" TeX inside the mathjax?
Apr 12, 2018 at 13:46 comment added Discrete lizard Mod @EmilioPisanty "The clutter overhead of the dollar signs is minimal if the mathjax isn't rendered" I disagree. I don't see what the advantage of mixing unicode and TeX would be. Why make something that always looks suboptimal, whether TeX is rendered or not? I mean, the result with the rendered TeX is bad enough IMO not to do this.
Apr 12, 2018 at 13:37 comment added Emilio Pisanty You're missing the middle ground here: MathJax will happily take unicode math and render it, so Is $O(n²/2) ≤ O(n²)$? renders as "Is $O(n²/2) ≤ O(n²)$?". The clutter overhead of the dollar signs is minimal if the mathjax isn't rendered, and the improvement in readability where it does render is obvious.
Jan 28, 2018 at 9:20 comment added Discrete lizard Mod @user82913 In the title, yes. But it is even better if your can make a title that doesn't have formulas at all. So, basically what Raphael wrote.
Jan 28, 2018 at 9:18 comment added user82913 @Discretelizard In conclusion, you suggest to favor unicode math rather than or instead of MathJax.
Jan 21, 2018 at 19:40 vote accept CommunityBot
Jan 21, 2018 at 19:39 comment added Raphael Mod See also here.
Jan 21, 2018 at 11:16 history answered Discrete lizardMod CC BY-SA 3.0