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copied!<p><strong>THE DREAM TOOL IS NOT TEX</strong> </p> <p>TEX is not great to work with. Tex is probably (I am not an expert in printing matters) good to provide a layer decoupling document from printing niceties and complexities. </p> <p><em>The conceptual line is this :</em><br> A mathematician is not a secretary, his main concern is <strong>WHAT</strong> he wants to show, not <strong>HOW</strong> to show it. So one more layer of abstraction is needed above that of Latex. </p> <p><em>General goal</em> :<br> Hence there is a need (a dream) for a tool that allows to be much closer to what we can do by hand and of course faster than by hand (in fact I once saw a written answer scanned in .pdf catching red-handed one of the main author of Latex in not using it!). </p> <p><em>Dream Tool specifications</em> : (rough one to get the idea)<br> S1. About an hour of initial time in the learning curve.<br> S2. Allow to write a document quickly (by simple analogy) even when tired.<br> S3. Cut and paste of seen formula available.<br> S4. To correct a document faster than by hand (2 minutes instead of 5 by hand). </p> <p><em>Today best tools abilities</em> :<br> S1. About the same.<br> S2. Impossible while thinking about something else.<br> S3. Cut and paste of formula description (implementation).<br> S4. It take 20 minutes instead of 5 by hand (everything is specific you have to decipher back and forth).</p> <p>Another example of sluggishness : Ask someone who wrote a latex document with 10 diagrams in category theory to draw all the squared ones in a slanted way, certainly not a quick job.</p>

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