Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
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Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
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Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#2I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful.
As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats).
Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/pandoc_resume
I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX, because it’s a pretty steep commitment for someone who isn’t a professional writer.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#3I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
Just use typst, way easier to install (single binary) and use (much easier to write directives): https://typst.app
I use the commandline binary, you could use the website as well.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#4I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX.
My FOSS desktop editor, KeenWrite[1], converts Markdown to XHTML, XHTML into TeX, then TeX into PDF. Users may drop into TeX itself for math, if needed. Behind the scenes, KeenWrite passes the document to ConTeXt along with a theme.[2] The theme abstracts away most of the complexities of TeX.
There isn't a resume theme, yet, though there are some available for ConTeXt that would be tempting to abstract.[3]
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#5One big important project, which is making good progress, is "tagged PDFs".
The biggest advantage of these is that they should be, eventually, accessible to blind people, unlike normal PDFs created by LaTeX which are not that much better than a blank page to be honest (this isn't PDF's fault, Microsoft Word PDFs are very accessible).
For exciting reasons to do with the internals of TeX (mainly, it's actually a programming language, although it looks like a markup language), I know this has been a major project that has taken many years, and will take many more -- but I personally consider it a fairly big embarassment of academia, which often claims it wants to be open and accessible, that we lock so much of our research in a format which many people simply can't read.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#6I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
Overleaf does a great job of being a web based LaTeX editor. It generally isolates errors well and has a decide mapping between the PDF and source.
If you start from one of their templates it’s probably approachable. At least within the scientific world I’ve found overleaf makes it more approachable for students and even experienced people appreciate the value add of the collaborative features.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#7I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX, because it’s a pretty steep commitment for someone who isn’t a professional writer.
I have been working on and off on a fork of LaTeX with real-time feedback: you can see the document and error messages rendered and updated live. It also supports SyncTeX (going from a source line to the corresponding output and vice-versa).
I added vim support recently, you can see it in action there: https://github.com/let-def/texpresso.vim There is also emacs support in the main repo (https://github.com/let-def/texpresso). That's all quite experimental, but I hope to do a first release next year. It should work on most unix, I test with Linux and macOS.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#8I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
Just use typst, way easier to install (single binary) and use (much easier to write directives): https://typst.app I use the commandline binary, you could use the website as well.
typst people on latex posts are like Rust people on C++ posts :) (and I say this as a Rust programmer).
With regards typst, I will consider it when there is any kind of accessible output -- at the moment it only seems to make PDFs, and those PDFs are entirely inaccessible by blind people.
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#9I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful. As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats). Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/p…
> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX. My FOSS desktop editor, KeenWrite[1], converts Markdown to XHTML, XHTML into TeX, then TeX into PDF. Users may drop into TeX itself for math, if needed. Behind the scenes, KeenWrite passes the document to ConTeXt along with a theme.[2] The theme abstracts away most of the complexities of TeX. There isn't a resume theme, yet, though there are…
KeenWrite looks very nice :-) How does it compare to LyX?
Re: Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just use typst, way easier to install (single binary) and use (much easier to write directives): https://typst.app I use the commandline binary, you could use the website as well.
typst people on latex posts are like Rust people on C++ posts :) (and I say this as a Rust programmer). With regards typst, I will consider it when there is any kind of accessible output -- at the moment it only seems to make PDFs, and those PDFs are entirely inaccessible by blind people.
Because the PDFs only carry an image? (I'm assuming if there was real text the tools could extract it, but could be wrong)