Forester for the Woodland Skeptic
What I don’t understand about Forest (and what is keeping me from just go ahead and write everything there) is the syntax… why a new one? Why not Markdown or LaTeX or a reasonable hybrid like the nLab? -- Matteo Capucci This is a tutorial aimed at people who want to get started writing on the LocalCharts forest, but don't know how forester works/are frustrated at how forester is different from tools they may be used to. This is intended to be a direct introduction than the official tutorial (which has more motivation for forester), and also has some localcharts-specific content. Forester is a tool for writing large quantities of professional quality mathematics on the web. To support large quantities, it has extensive interlinking/backlink/transclusion support. To support professional quality, it has a uniform, LaTeX-like syntax with macros that work the same in prose, KaTeX-based math equations, and LaTeX-produced figures. An example forester document showcasing basic features looks l