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There is a bit of manual tweaking required in LaTeX that I haven't figured out how to automate yet. It's mainly related to chapter endings: if there are only 2 or 3 lines on the la…

Last I checked, typst doesn't have baseline grid support (i.e., assures vertical lines of text across spreads are aligned, thus text doesn't bleed through recto to verso).

Asciidoctor was in the running months ago. I like the idea of a single set of files, but yes, word processors are my weakness.

typst is great. I experimented with it, it I simply didn't have the fine-tuning and maturity LaTeX. For example, window/orphan control is a binary on/off, while LaTeX calculates by…

I use VS Code soft-wrapping, and `git diff --word-diff` does all I need, though there probably are better methods.

Author here. You're exactly right. All of my pre-grad education was liberal arts. I had never once heard of LaTeX until I entered the software world years later, and even then only…

Author here. Yes, I wrote the books and glued everything together. If I failed to mention it in the article, it's because I was trying not to self-promote so much. Thanks for the c…

This was an early inspiration for me that I failed to mention in the article. I'm glad you mentioned it. It really does have a lot of good examples, especially the complex lists an…

I saw typst in my explorations but LaTeX had a few more of the controls I was looking for in print, and I really wanted a Standard Ebooks compliant EPUB. I might revisit at some ti…

Yes! All the typographical techniques and terminology is fascinating (and confusing at times). Widow and orphan control really fight against text justification. Finding the right b…

Hi, OP here. I'm glad you enjoyed the writeup. Amateur...you're probably right. It reminds me of my home improvement project I've been working on this evening: interior painting. M…

I wrote a relatively simple web application ( https://github.com/DSpeckhals/bible.rs ) about 9 months ago with version 0.7. The initial code changes to migrate to 1.0 weren't that …

The Java (5+) Map interface can be typed using generics (which -- if JS eventually introduces static typing -- I hope is implemented). Map = new HashMap (); That declares a Map wit…

It's kind of funny. ES6 seems to be making JS more "Python", while "strong mode" makes it more like Java/C# (at least to me). I'm open to worthwhile changes; I'm just thinking abou…

Agreed. And unless I'm reading the document wrong, this would also be prohibited in strong mode: let x = { keyA: "valueA" }; x.keyB = "valueB";

I think I like most of what this document proposes except for the following: In strong code, accessing objects (strong or not) throws on missing properties. New object properties h…

Disclaimer: I'm a son of the Midwest :-) This article hit home for me. Though I technically now live in a medium-sized mid-Atlantic city, the culture here is more like the Midwest.…

I like the idea of a WP API. I guess in the future you could more easily build non-browser apps that utilize WP data. Of course, there's always going to be the people who don't ver…

In regards to "circumstances", I was specifically referring to the gridlock in Congress (since we're posting links, here's one: http://blog.oup.com/2013/10/federalist-papers-govern…

I agree, it is national communications policy. But why not try getting a new statute passed that isn't based on telephones from the switch-operator era? It just seems to me that it…

These circumstances have been happening since the creation of the United States. We act like things move far slower now than they ever have. The government was made to move slow on…

It seems to just be more federal regulation from DC. I'm as much of a fan of a free and open internet as anyone, but why risk the FCC getting involved? Also, can anyone honestly se…