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jterrace

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About jterrace

Currently a software engineer at Google. Formerly a graduate student at Princeton.

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    What kind of compression ratio do you get?

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    Comment #6642082

    indeed :)

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    Comment #4773462

    Aren't they both just modeled after the 2007 paper Events Can Make Sense that outlines Tame http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/tame-usenix07.pdf

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    Comment #4617391

    You're confusing the language with the build system. LaTeX wouldn't be very useful without the awesome build system. This project is a build system for producing both high-quality …

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    Comment #4615560

    You've never used ReST but you somehow know it's not good for typesetting research papers?

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    Comment #4611886

    It has inline math. I just forgot to add an example for it. If by IEEE style, you mean bibtex, then yes, you can easily swap the bibtex format.

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    Comment #4610751

    Sure, but that's what the PDF format exists for.

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    Comment #4610644

    You can cite a URL.

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    Comment #4610454

    You can link to a section with a URL. No "section xyz" or "page n" needed.

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    Comment #4610404

    Mathjax is very good at it too.

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    Comment #4610402

    The HTML format does generate multiple pages for different sections and chapters, completely configurable. The format above is the singlehtml format where everything is on one page…

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    Comment #4610353

    100% intentional

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    Comment #4610327

    Agreed, but for my case, I didn't really care too much about the PDF output. The printed version of my thesis is going to sit in my university library untouched forever. I'm much m…

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    Comment #4610300

    This is a nice project, but different goals. I don't want my HTML output to look like a PDF. I want it to look like a nicely formatted web document

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    Comment #4610201

    To be fair, I only released it after my thesis was done :)