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by acabal 5y ago
Have you tried any epubs with MathML? If so how do they compare?
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by acabal 5y ago
The point is that front-end libraries are not as critical as most of today's web developers think they are. Sure, you can use a well-known templating library on the back end to assist in constructing HTML before you output it. But once
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by acabal 5y ago
Web developers need to take a step back and realize that plain HTML/CSS can fulfill the needs of 90% of the basic text-on-a-page format of most websites out there, especially with the advances in CSS and form/input controls we&#x2
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The Anxiety of Influencers(harpers.org)
206 points by acabal 5y ago|185 comments
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by acabal 5y ago
Very excited for the command palette. I wish something like that was accessible in every app. I know there's Plotinus but it feels kind of hacky--high-level support at the toolkit/HIG level for the whole desktop would be incredibl
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The Anxiety of Influencers(harpers.org)
3 points by acabal 5y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 5y ago
That's a great one! Also available at SE as "Memoirs of a Madman": https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/short-fictio...
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by acabal 5y ago
If you want to read Dead Souls , there's a free high quality edition at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/d... It's a surprisingly funny and brisk read.
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by acabal 6y ago
There are plenty of walkable cities in hot climates all over the world. Look at South America or Asia. After wearing appropriate clothing--loose open-weave linen, shorts, etc., not dense cotton t-shirts and tight baseball caps--and spending
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by acabal 6y ago
The CSS `hyphens` property allows the browser (or ereader) to automatically hyphenate, and is usually set to off by default. It works fairly well in a browser context, and currently has limited support in ebook context. Kepubs on Kobo for e
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by acabal 6y ago
Webkit-based renderers support it, and AFAIK that means just iBooks, Kobo when using its kepub flavor of epub (but not in regular epubs, which trigger its inferior renderer), and software like Foliate. At Standard Ebooks we use MathML in ou
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by acabal 6y ago
You can download a free ebook edition of Tractatus with nice MathML formulas at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...
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by acabal 6y ago
I'd be interested to learn more about this. Will you contact me when your blog post is live?
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by acabal 6y ago
No, see my comment history for more discussion on this. The entire toolchain would have to be forked to support other typographical styles, and without a domain expert willing to dedicate years to ongoing curation and maintenance of the cor
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by acabal 6y ago
Hi folks, Alex Cabal here! Looks like the site got hugged to death. Here's an archive link posted by DanBC deeper in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210220133950/https://mythaxis.... Hap
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by acabal 6y ago
In this particular case, I don't think the problem is patents (thought I do have a lot of problems with patents as a concept), rather poor business decisions by eInk. They are indeed using patents as originally envisioned: They have an
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by acabal 6y ago
The Great Gatsby entered the US public domain this year, and you can read it for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-gre...
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by acabal 6y ago
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregor...
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by acabal 6y ago
I'm not sure if there's an effort to shorten copyright (unfortunately), but the fact that things are starting to enter the public domain again is already a big win for culture. I imagine companies like Disney would lobby pretty
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by acabal 6y ago
The Great Gatsby is up for free on Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-gre... There's also the great 1925 WWI novel by Ford Madox Ford called No More Parades: https:&#x2
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by acabal 6y ago
I thought this had to be satire when I opened the page. Now I'm still not sure.
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by acabal 6y ago
That's what I do on the command line (though I went so far as to just alias `grep` to `grep -E`), but when writing scripts I prefer to use expanded flags for clarity. When going back to a script one wrote a year ago, it's way easi
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by acabal 6y ago
Learning the shell was one of the best things I did as a programmer. It helped a lot that 15+ years ago I committed to running desktop Linux as a daily driver. Especially back then when things were much rougher on the desktop, using Linux a
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by acabal 6y ago
The inconsistency sometimes bothers me too, but it makes me feel a little better to remember that so many of the CLI commands we take for granted are part of an old historical heritage. The inconsistency is part of that heritage--today&#x27
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by acabal 6y ago
argparse is really good and it's built-in. I was also wondering why it wasn't listed as the default option for Python, let alone it not being mentioned at all.
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by acabal 6y ago
This is a good resource with a lot of good points. But, > Display output on success, but keep it brief. Strong disagree. If everything went OK, or something is in progress, I don't need to be notified; it's distracting and make
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by acabal 6y ago
hombre_fatal's explanation further upthread is exactly on point. Forking is the only sensible option.
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by acabal 6y ago
Yes, this has been fixed, thanks!
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by acabal 6y ago
The "all" feed is sorted by most-recently-updated-first (this is part of the OPDS standard), so instead of tail -r you should pipe to sort.
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by acabal 6y ago
Maybe you're referring to the LoC categories? Those are separated by two dashes as the industry standard for that metadata. The actual text of the books features correct em dashes.

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