I really want to say that I hate this, but I'm sure it was invented for a reason.
And as someone who used to write half a dozen indices on tensors in general relativity problems, I should probably not be so quick to judge.
And as someone who used to write half a dozen indices on tensors in general relativity problems, I should probably not be so quick to judge.
I think we just feel like people who are unfamiliar with math notation when they see a physics paper. It works for physicists - and well - but that does not mean that it is not absolutely inscrutable to someone who comes from a different field. Now for once we are the ones coming from a different field.
One pain the ass I have though is needing to install the actuarial symbol LaTeX package for various software I use and write. I got it working with stuff like Sphinx and Anki. Things like communicating over bulletin boards is still very challenging if the site does not support custom notation:
https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/actuaria...
e.g. you'd want to specify something like "The 10 year interest rate on 2021-09-22, in percent per year, continuously compounded".