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Backwards compatibility – Why has MathML not reused TeX/LaTeX, or the SGML DTDs ISO 12083 or AAP Math ?

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Backwards compatibility – Why has MathML not reused TeX/LaTeX, or the SGML DTDs ISO 12083 or AAP Math ?

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TeX and LaTeX are very widely used for encoding mathematical expressions. However, they encode only the surface presentation of an expression, and do not encode either semantic information or structural information.