Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
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Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#2What 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.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#3hmm i wish i weren't so shit at webdev or i would take this and turn plug it into jekyll's markdown compiler. i guess it shouldn't be that hard.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#4What 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.
there are plenty of people that appreciate "dry academic papers" - they're called academics.
there are also plenty of blogs written by academic types that aim for minimalism.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#5hmm i wish i weren't so shit at webdev or i would take this and turn plug it into jekyll's markdown compiler. i guess it shouldn't be that hard.
I don't know too much about Jekyll, but I assume you can just find a template project and swap out the style sheet this this one.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#6I 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.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#7What 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.
there are plenty of people that appreciate "dry academic papers" - they're called academics. there are also plenty of blogs written by academic types that aim for minimalism.
Yeah but it's very edge-casey and not everyone's an academic so the target audience must be very small. Otherwise why write the CSS for it. If I wanted to write a CSS library I would be aiming for a large audience (but that's just me; always trying to have maximum impact)
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#8This is pretty cool.
However, I do agree with some of the other contents that the style is a little dry for a webpage.
I think it would be very useful as the "print" style for articles or blog posts, without having to pipe through pandoc: most browsers support print to pdf.
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are plenty of people that appreciate "dry academic papers" - they're called academics. there are also plenty of blogs written by academic types that aim for minimalism.
Yeah but it's very edge-casey and not everyone's an academic so the target audience must be very small. Otherwise why write the CSS for it. If I wanted to write a CSS library I would be aiming for a large audience (but that's just me; always trying to have maximum impact)
Of course the audience this is intended for is pretty niche. Afaik there is only one other LaTeX-like library (the one I built my version upon) that achieves such a style. I don’t expect my version to blow up like bootstrap or whatever at all. Getting a maximum impact with a CSS library nowadays is extremely hard imo. I mean, we already have thousands of CSS libraries that are pretty much the same, right?
Re: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
#10I 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 feel the same way. I had a good laugh at your Stockholm Syndrome comment!