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Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by josephernest »

yoz-y wrote: post #30

Quite neat. I wouldn't use this myself as I prefer to have an environment which is crash proof and I would be too scared to close the window, however I think this could be quite great as an embedded editor. It seems like the \pagebreak is not respected when printing on Safari (Chrome works fine). The preview shows a dotted line but the printed pdf is not broken. Also, the footnotes are not on the correct page but alw…

Close the tab (or even close the browser), and open it again: it's still there (backuped in LocalStorage), phew! :)

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by kccqzy »

kmill wrote: post #25
kccqzy wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily the math it renders doesn’t use Computer Modern at all.

What do you mean? At https://josephernest.github.io/writing/ it includes cmunrm.otf: @font-face { font-family: texroman; src: url(cmunrm.otf); /* https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/267197/27733 */ } And a spot check of some of symbols in the rendered math seems to prove it is Computer Modern. Funnily for me, just today I was telling a colleague how I'm happy to see math textbooks that aren't in Computer Modern.

I see this: https://imgur.com/a/vvYpW

The symbols and letters are so wrong. Inspecting the element shows that the font family is STIXGeneral.

On the other hand I find it amusing that an editor that purports to be "distraction-free" uses fake italics (known as \textsl in LaTeX) who are incredibly distracting to me. It also uses fake bold but at least that's slightly more tolerable. Look if you want things to be both minimalistic and "distraction-free" you have to make the typography perfect otherwise mistakes in typography stick out like a sore thumb.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by [deleted] »

josephernest wrote: post #23
searene wrote: post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

Typora seems nice, but it seems it's not in the browser ... Sometimes it's ok, but sometimes it's cool to have a solution in the browser (shared computer, university computer, etc.) where you cannot install any binaries.

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Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by trevorriles »

searene wrote: post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

Typora looks amazing, thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by sxldier »

searene wrote: post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

I just found out about it last night. It's really an awesome markdown editor! The only thing I wish it had was a way to embed another markdown document and have a preview as well as a PDF. But those aren't a deal breaker for me.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by sxldier »

Immortalin wrote: post #16

One text editor I have always wanted is a word processor with first class vim keybindings support. I don't need too many fanciful features but the most important features would be proper text reflowing and vim integration. Vim doesn't do too well with reflowing text when a hard margin is set, nor when there a single digital line is stretched across several visual lines. Vim by default would treat it as a single digit…

You can look into Boostnote, it has that feature built in.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#37

Post by sxldier »

josephernest wrote: post #31
yoz-y wrote: post #30

Quite neat. I wouldn't use this myself as I prefer to have an environment which is crash proof and I would be too scared to close the window, however I think this could be quite great as an embedded editor. It seems like the \pagebreak is not respected when printing on Safari (Chrome works fine). The preview shows a dotted line but the printed pdf is not broken. Also, the footnotes are not on the correct page but alw…

Close the tab (or even close the browser), and open it again: it's still there (backuped in LocalStorage), phew! :)

Lol sweet. This is dope, keep doing what you're doing!

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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Post by convery »

searene wrote: post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

That webdesign though, sat for a minute looking at the first image because I thought it was a loadingscreen. Who makes a 4K white image with some animated text on it as their header?!
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