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A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing

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Re: A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing

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> Our hero, a mathematician, is writing notes in LaTeX and needs to convert it to a format that her blog platform accepts. She’s used to using dollar sign delimiters for math mode, but her blog requires \( \) and \[ \]. Unless our hero mathematician is writing, like, several blog posts a day, using tools like parser generators and writing your grammar in BNF and the like is WAY overkill. Just use search/replace and m…

`sed` is your friend

Re: A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing

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post #6

> Our hero, a mathematician, is writing notes in LaTeX and needs to convert it to a format that her blog platform accepts. She’s used to using dollar sign delimiters for math mode, but her blog requires \( \) and \[ \]. Unless our hero mathematician is writing, like, several blog posts a day, using tools like parser generators and writing your grammar in BNF and the like is WAY overkill. Just use search/replace and m…

I think he use vim. Last paragraph. This is click bait. Hooked myself.
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