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Re: Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

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Post by maaarghk »

Ah nice! I considered something like this when writing my honours project, but ultimately moved on to other things. I really hope you see this through - but I'd recommend implementing Knuth-Plass basically straight away, I reckon it's what makes the difference!

Re: Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

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Post by houshuang »

This looks great - hopefully wouldn't be too hard to implement Markdown as well. I really want to be writing my academic papers in Markdown or some other simple markup (my papers usually have a surprisingly simple structure), and still have them look nice. Making it _much_ easier to create nice-looking templates would be great (maybe even a GUI editor for templates).

However, I would also love to see more movement towards more flexible, semantic document formats for for example academic papers... I want to be able to read papers in my preferred style, whether on my iPad, Kindle or Mac. But still good support for citations, highlighting etc. Maybe epub is the way to go, not sure.

Anyway very exciting project, and good luck!

Re: Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

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Post by JasonFruit » 

    While I understand you generally shouldn’t rewrite 
    software from scratch, maybe TeX should be one of 
    the few exceptions to this rule?
I think the rule is better stated as, "It should be a long time before you choose to rewrite usable software from scratch. But after 35 years, you can maybe consider it." TeX is great, but it is definitely showing its age, and it shows a lot of the inconsistencies many (other) programming languages of its age also exhibit. Besides, it's not really a rewrite; this is a new piece of software that does something similar.

Re: Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

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Post by Frozenlock »

houshuang wrote: post #3

This looks great - hopefully wouldn't be too hard to implement Markdown as well. I really want to be writing my academic papers in Markdown or some other simple markup (my papers usually have a surprisingly simple structure), and still have them look nice. Making it _much_ easier to create nice-looking templates would be great (maybe even a GUI editor for templates). However, I would also love to see more movement to…

You could look at Org Mode. You can write your document in a similar fashion you would with Markdown, but then you can export in many other formats (including exporting to LaTeX and PdfTeX).

Re: Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

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Post by srik »

Frozenlock wrote: post #5
houshuang wrote: post #3

This looks great - hopefully wouldn't be too hard to implement Markdown as well. I really want to be writing my academic papers in Markdown or some other simple markup (my papers usually have a surprisingly simple structure), and still have them look nice. Making it _much_ easier to create nice-looking templates would be great (maybe even a GUI editor for templates). However, I would also love to see more movement to…

You could look at Org Mode. You can write your document in a similar fashion you would with Markdown, but then you can export in many other formats (including exporting to LaTeX and PdfTeX).

Isn't Org Mode tied to one editor.
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