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> I managed to switch entirely over to LaTeX document authoring I tried and found it the weirdest language (BrainFuck aside) I ever seen. Sure you can copy-pas
by qwerty456127 3y ago
> I managed to switch entirely over to LaTeX document authoring
I tried and found it the weirdest language (BrainFuck aside) I ever seen. Sure you can copy-paste-modify it to do something similar to what everyone does but doing anything atypical seems prohibitively hard.
I really miss a modern (first-class Unicode to begin with, also more intuitive while more rich and less verbose than HTML+CSS) human-oriented typesetting language. Perhaps it's time to invent what MarkDown is to HTML but to SVG.
> As for cloud we just send PDFs around
Can MS Office make hybrid PDFs the way LibreOffice does (embed the source document into the PDF)?
- cjk2 3y agoWell it all makes a lot of sense but you have to understand it first. That takes time. I’m typesetting stuff which has complex mathematics in it so there are no better solutions. This is the best human solution we have. There are some workflows that you can’t do with anything else as well. For example I am doing a lot of semi hand drawn diagrams on my iPad in Goodnotes. These are exported as vector PDFs and trimmed and included in the LaTeX documents as figures. They are fully vector end to end which is a complete pain in the ass on any other package. As for hybrid PDFs I don’t know. I am mostly interested in not shopping the source document.
- stby 3y agohttps://github.com/typst/typst https://github.com/typst/typst looks promising, both the language and the tooling. I wonder where it will find its place in a world that is dominated by either Word or LaTex.