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> Today, when I saw that I got an invitation to repost this article from the mods The mods personally invited you to repost a year later?
Yes! I was surprised too. It's a cool hidden mechanic of HN, the second chance pool[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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So funny to me that people assume, oh it's written in Rust, so it must be a rewrite of something else just so they can use Rust. They never imagine that people choose Rust for something they want to implement anyway and not just to replicate something existing, that they do not want to use since it's not implemented in Rust????
Oh I know there's loads of original Rust work, but you have to acknowledge that the "X, but in Rust" trope exists.
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Edge could. MS cut it out long before the move to the chrome rendering engine.
Edge supported epub until the bitter end of the Spartan renderer. It was only Microsoft's attempt at an ebook store that died long before that. Admittedly, most people's visibility into Edge epub support was through the Store and the sidebar dedicated to store purchases, but if you had no other book reader app take over the .epub file extension (or if you realized that you could drag and drop DRM-free .epub files int…
Particularly because of the text-to-speech engine features.
Sphinx and reStructuredText are, IMHO, underrated power houses of document building. With extensions, you can hook them up to Zotero (or whatever)-managed bibtex files. You can render to beautiful HTML files, and you get latex PDFs and epubs for free. First class latex-math support, plenty of integrations with things like mermaid, graphviz, and the ability to build super-powerful custom directives to do basically any…
I write a fair amount of reports professionally and I use word. Getting data from my Python analysis into the reports are tedious at best and updating numbers last minute is hair pulling frustrating. But because of the good wysiwyg I can cheat on my adjustments when I need a graph to go “just there”, I can edit my paragraph wording such that I don’t get a almost completely blank page in between sections, etc, etc whi…
1. Great markdown editor with both source and WYSIWYG views
2. Render to a wide range of formats including html, pdf, epub, docx
3. Generate books, web sites, single page docs, presentations
4. Incorporate code (like jupyter) except the source is plain text with fenced blocks
5. Supports code in a number of languages including Python and R.
6. Can use other editors too (iirc there's a plugin for VS Code though never tried it).
7. Built in support for MathJax for mathematical formulae and Mermaid for text-based diagramming with auto inline preview
I prefer it to Word for writing and jupyter for notebooks. No affiliation to Posit, the company that develops both Quarto & RStudio. Just a fan of the products.
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[0]: https://quarto.org/ [1]: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
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As a certified grumpy old developer I spent years writing off the "X but in Rust" projects, but I have to confess that a lot of good things with meaningful improvements have come from the rewrite-everything-in-Rust movement. I've not used Typst and not authored much LaTeX (but worked on a project with a group of scientists who used nothing but LaTeX) and can see obvious advantages to Typst. Same with many, many other…
jamiedumont let out a rambonctious laugh to himself. - Ah, you got me good you meddling kids! jamiedumont was talking to himself again. hackerbod slowly leaned over and squinted at the screen. - Uh Typst? - Yeah! It’s a typesetting markup language. It’s supposed to be better than things like latex. - Ok. What’s so funny about it? - Oh hehe, it’s written in—guess what? - I dunno? - Rust! jamiedumont started giggling b…
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Edge supported epub until the bitter end of the Spartan renderer. It was only Microsoft's attempt at an ebook store that died long before that. Admittedly, most people's visibility into Edge epub support was through the Store and the sidebar dedicated to store purchases, but if you had no other book reader app take over the .epub file extension (or if you realized that you could drag and drop DRM-free .epub files int…
And it was probably the best EPUB reader available on Windows. Particularly because of the text-to-speech engine features.
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Typst. Typst is better IMO
As a certified grumpy old developer I spent years writing off the "X but in Rust" projects, but I have to confess that a lot of good things with meaningful improvements have come from the rewrite-everything-in-Rust movement. I've not used Typst and not authored much LaTeX (but worked on a project with a group of scientists who used nothing but LaTeX) and can see obvious advantages to Typst. Same with many, many other…
A rewrite in Rust can be good for those reasons, as it removes the "cruft" of old implementation, but also gets the nice properties of speed and such.
But ultimately the thing I love most about Rust is not even the safety and such - it's the package management and build system. Just look at the horrible python/js scene for how bad packaging and build systems can be, and you'll understand why that basic uniform experience can be so nice.
If I'm using LaTeX, I'm writing scientific articles. I expect scientific articles to be read by people on computers with normal screen sizes or printed off. Therefore there's no reason to bother with anything other than PDF. PDF works great.
I spent a few weeks last year doing the opposite, HTML to LaTex in order to print and nicely typeset top HN articles, so I'd have a nicely printed booklet each morning. I think creating hard copies of web content for offline reading holds a lot of promise, but the internet is a beast.
> so I'd have a nicely printed booklet each morning. Why? If you're just printing to read on the train or whatever, wouldn't you just discard after reading?
I feel ambivalent to LaTeX. I don't like the language, the ecosystem is too big, complicated and breaks, but the end result is hard to do any other way. This applies both the equations part, and the text reflow part (I think them as separate things, but they usually go together). It should be possible to write text in HTML or markdown, and write the equations in latex or asciimath, and turn it into a beautiful/articl…
Every time I encounter LaTeX, I think of something I heard: "You shouldn't need a build environment for a word processor." I can't get away from that sentiment. Almost nobody I've seen using LaTeX has actually been using it for typesetting . Usually they're using a typesetter for word processing. Sometimes it feels like they're only using LaTeX because they "learned it in college." You ever notice that? So many peopl…