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I hated the look of LaTeX documents when I first started university, especially the font. I don't know what happened, but I eventually fell in love Computer Modern. Something about it just looks great. Maybe it's just Stockholm Syndrome.
So then if you use a html2pdf tool you can generate a pdf people will think was done with LaTeX! Here I wasted all that time learning LaTeX to impress people.
I hated the look of LaTeX documents when I first started university, especially the font. I don't know what happened, but I eventually fell in love Computer Modern. Something about it just looks great. Maybe it's just Stockholm Syndrome.
Someone on a German forum made a wider version of it which (imo) looks much better [1].
[1] https://www.typografie.info/3/topic/22238-ist-die-computer-m... Translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
One small thing I noticed is that in the Binomial theorem, “k=0” is hidden by sigma, unless I zoom in a little. If I zoom back out afterwards, it’s fine until I start scrolling again.
I don’t know anywhere near enough css to guess what’s going on.
[1] https://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/booktabs/booktabs.pd...
Why do some of the equations show up as rendered by MathJax, but others still read `$\mathbb{R}$`?
I hated the look of LaTeX documents when I first started university, especially the font. I don't know what happened, but I eventually fell in love Computer Modern. Something about it just looks great. Maybe it's just Stockholm Syndrome.
I think a lot of people go through a life cycle of Computer Modern. I originally was indifferent, but once I learned LaTeX I used it since it was the default and it signaled to people that I knew LaTeX. Now I prefer Utopia/Fourier instead. Computer Modern seems to "thin", in my opinion, but I still use it on occasion. Some colleagues of mine really love it, though. I can see why some people like it since it's the def…
What so it just styles your site to look like a dry academic paper? What use case does this have? I imagine someone out there really needs this and the target audience is small.
But don't most academic papers actually look very different from this? Usually, conferences and journals provide style files that look very different from this website. I see out-of-the-box latex looks mostly in shorter student reports - although even there, you often get more modern looking styles.
https://thomaspark.co/2015/01/pubcss-formatting-academic-pub...
https://thomaspark.co/projects/pubcss/demo/acm-sig-sample-we...
I hated the look of LaTeX documents when I first started university, especially the font. I don't know what happened, but I eventually fell in love Computer Modern. Something about it just looks great. Maybe it's just Stockholm Syndrome.