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mcanouil

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About mcanouil

Biostatistics, Ph.D. | Quarto Extension Creator & R Package Developer | Building Tools for Data Scientists

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    Writing HTML, a Typst PDF, and a reveal.js deck from one Quarto source runs into three recurring problems: heading levels, format-specific attributes, and slide breaks. This post s…

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    Comment #48802122

    great-docs generates an API reference documentation site from a Python package’s docstrings. Shiny for Python serves the interactive app. A Starlette wrapper mounts both at the sam…

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    Comment #48628875

    With a constructor, you get to document/validate. A plain dictionary makes this harder or virtually impossible (you most often will silently fail). https://m.canouil.dev/gribouille…

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    Comment #48628387

    That's fixed in 0.4.0 awaiting approval for Typst Universe (plus other improvements in various areas).

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    Comment #48628356

    That's still an open question to be honest. Whether or not I should still surface aes() or just drop it in favour of the plain dictionnary. it's indeed not really necessary, but ma…

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    Comment #48628340

    I do use them to make flyers and other PDF content. You can see an example on my LinkedIn account I posted last week when travelling (it's in French). https://www.linkedin.com/feed…

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    No comment^^

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    An advanced high quality example: a star-history chart showing 0.3.0 spikes from HackerNews. Temporal Scales, Any-Glyph Markers, and a Finer Grid.

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