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Thanks. We did discuss this on HN a few years ago and I added a few comments, starting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048693 https://news.ycombin

Thanks. We did discuss this on HN a few years ago and I added a few comments, starting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048693 I continued to work on that project for a while afterwards, but I don’t think my overall views on the pros and cons of the literate style changed much from what I wrote there. If there’s anything you’re particularly curious about, I’m happy to discuss further (though my professional experience was limited to that one project, so I’m hardly an expert).

WillAdams 2y ago
One thing which might help with "scannability" is to have a toggle in the LaTeX code which changes it from focusing on displaying the document as a typeset whole to showing only the typeset code. A possible way to do this would be change the width of the page so that the text lines are so wide each paragraph would only be a single line, then you could set the PDF view to only be the width of the widest code line at the left edge.