Towards LaTeX in the Browser
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Towards LaTeX in the Browser
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Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#2I wonder if somebody has taken TeX and compiled to the browser in wasm using emscripten. That would be easier to port but heavy on load times.
Edit: it exists! https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ is a limited port of LaTeX to JS, rendered to PDF
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#3I have found KaTeX to be the best currently-available solution. In particular, it can be rendered without client-side javascript.
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#4Are there any other solutions to document typesetting with latex-like features? TeX is very obtuse for someone who hasn't been using it for a long time.
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#5I wonder if somebody has taken TeX and compiled to the browser in wasm using emscripten. That would be easier to port but heavy on load times. Edit: it exists! https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ is a limited port of LaTeX to JS, rendered to PDF
Compiling to wasm certainly seems like the right place to start, though it might be non-trivial to get the output to render into a canvas.
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#6Completely besides the point, but that integral evaluates to sqrt(2pi), not sqrt(pi).
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#7Are there any other solutions to document typesetting with latex-like features? TeX is very obtuse for someone who hasn't been using it for a long time.
For lightweight stuff, there's vanilla Markdown, but you have no control over formatting. For more serious work using markdown, you can try out Ulysses[0] or Scribus[1].
And, if you feel like spending an obscene amount of money, on the order of $10k, there's Arbortext APP[2]. (I don't know why this even exists?)
[0]: https://ulyssesapp.com/ [1]: https://www.scribus.net/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbortext_Advanced_Print_Publi...
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#8Are there any other solutions to document typesetting with latex-like features? TeX is very obtuse for someone who hasn't been using it for a long time.
A common solution is to use LaTeX, but to use it indirectly: write in Markdown and convert to PDF using Pandoc [1], which uses LaTeX in the background. This is (part of) the process used in RMarkdown [2], for example. That way, you get all the benefits of TeX and LaTeX but without most of the pain.
[1]: https://pandoc.org/index.html [2]: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#9Just for fun here is a little web game I made to look like a maths paper using MathJax.
Re: Towards LaTeX in the Browser
#10Are there any other solutions to document typesetting with latex-like features? TeX is very obtuse for someone who hasn't been using it for a long time.
A common solution is to use LaTeX, but to use it indirectly: write in Markdown and convert to PDF using Pandoc [1], which uses LaTeX in the background. This is (part of) the process used in RMarkdown [2], for example. That way, you get all the benefits of TeX and LaTeX but without most of the pain. [1]: https://pandoc.org/index.html [2]: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
I've seen some people do org-mode -> TeX -> research paper. It's very impressive. I just wish there was something like that with a more GUI/polished feel.