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In my work I do some scientific and mathematical writing, and like most people in academia I use LaTeX. I trade a lot of email with colleagues which contains mathematical notation. We all do a lot of LaTeX, so we tend to just drop LaTeX math notation into plaintext; expressions such as `\{ x \mid x^2 \in S \}` are easy to type, and in simple cases fairly easy to read. More complex