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This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare. Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev
by muhfuhkuh 12y ago
This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare.
Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)? Is it required, what you're used to, or purity of notation?
- SuitAndThai 12y agoIt's probably because the author needs to describe complex mathematics and DocBook is unable to describe mathematics[1]. I can't speak much about Publican however. 1. http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html
- hds 12y agoPartly it's what I'm used to, but I've yet to find anything "easier" for the large amount of mathematics I typeset. There is a lot of notation and very little graphics or difficult formatting.
- irremediable 12y agoI think LaTeX remains the go-to language for this kind of stuff. Certainly, every STEM academic I've worked with has used it.
- j2kun 12y agoThere's nothing more suspicious than a math paper written in something besides TeX.
- jisterdev 12y ago'content dev'. yuck.