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by piker 1y ago
The promise is what you see is what you get between Word and Tritium [desktop]. Transactional practices like RE, funds, capital markets, finance, derivatives, M&A are the target audience. The roadmap includes a shared history but iManag
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by piker 1y ago
It actually does on the desktop versions. The "web preview" doesn't have any access to the browser's fonts, so it's limited to an open-source embedded font. Check out the downloads!
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by piker 1y ago
Very true! That's why this is just a "web preview". It's not intended to be used as the primary application. As mentioned elsewhere, the primary application is a desktop application that does look to leverage native APIs
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Thanks so much. It does have this banner: "Some features are unavailable in Web Preview. <link>Download the Desktop version</link> for full speed and functionality." which is intended to capture that exact issue.
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Not the version currently used by corporate lawyers, no. I can't speak to the future, but let's say I hope so!
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Thanks so much! Shouyld be fixed now
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by piker 1y ago
No, it doesn't work. I'm a long-term lawyer (and a techie), so I'm fully aware of Word's features and shortcomings. Most corporate lawyers use a product called Litera which is pretty good but a clunky COM add-in.
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by piker 1y ago
Great idea! Definitely coming.
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by piker 1y ago
I've added a very simple demo request page for folks who want to try Tritium at work: https://tritium.legal/demo . I'd love to run a demo for you or your legal team.
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by piker 1y ago
Perhaps that is an accurate percentage, but lawyers are in that .01%. If you're competing with Microsoft Word on performance you'd better be stupid fast and lightweight. Transactional lawyers routinely have dozens of Word document
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by piker 1y ago
Thanks so much for the idea. You may already know this, but fonts are actually little pieces of software subject to their own licensing terms. For that reason, Tritium (like most word processors, I believe) relies on the system fonts availa
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by piker 1y ago
It's not for everybody, but it's already being used by lawyers, and I'm one myself and want it. Appreciate it's not for you!
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by piker 1y ago
Actually I’m based in the UK and can say corporate law practice is nearly identical. Thanks for sharing!
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by piker 1y ago
It’s a great point. This uses the canvas element only because it’s rendering in the browser. But this is really a desktop application, so the canvas element doesn't come up as a concept outside of WASM. Your main contention seems to be
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by piker 1y ago
I had been messing around with Imgui relatively recently and enjoyed the simplicity. Prior to that I was doing stuff with React which is kind of the polar opposite and found that to be super laborious. So when I saw egui, I jumped at the ch
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by piker 1y ago
Yes, although that is not the target audience and we'll try to avoid spending time generalizing the product too much for laypeople to remain laser focused on the target.
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by piker 1y ago
The incredible irony of a typo in legal documentation related to a legal drafting application is not lost on me. Thanks very much for the positive words and the correction!
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^ yes it does greedily ingest the PDFs to allow for instantaneous search. What it needs (and doesn't yet do) is at least multi-thread that parsing step to get a 2-4x speedup.
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by piker 1y ago
Noted, and will be done. Thank you for the feedback. Were you on mobile or desktop?
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by piker 1y ago
Apologies if that's the case. It's just a WASM application intended to demo the real desktop application. No nefarious purpose there, but perhaps the limitations of the "preview". Try the desktop version!
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by piker 1y ago
Copy and paste don't work on the web version, but they should work (including pasting formatting out into Office products) on desktop. Similarly for fonts. If you're using a font that contains Japanese characters it should render.
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by piker 1y ago
Take one feature: redlining. Right now every corporate lawyer knows what a pain in the ass it is to do something as simple as a diff. It takes probably a full minute (imagine if it were like that to run git diff for you!). Tritium runs the
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by piker 1y ago
Oh, yes, that is also a cheat code to render them quicker -- it downsamples the render to save time. That will improve in future versions as Tritium uses spare cycles to increase the resolution.
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by piker 1y ago
Thanks so much. Yes, the plan is to package libraries along with the product to allow for all kinds of external entities to be resolved. Egui is great!
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Yes, they are not incentivized to adopt new technology in their current state. The senior partners don't want to wait around for the eventuality of charging more per hour. That's why Tritium is marked to in-house lawyers for now.
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by piker 1y ago
Probably something like: " [Person] - hope you're well! I wanted to put Tritium on your radar. It's a word processor jacked on steroids built just for transactional lawyers. From built-in defined term annotation to multi-docu
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by piker 1y ago
One thing it does is cast the PDF to grayscale to render for speed (lawyers rarely care about the color of a legal doc in PDF), so perhaps I'll make that an adjustable setting which will trade off speed for clarity. Otherwise, it uses
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by piker 1y ago
Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you
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by piker 1y ago
Great feedback; and I do agree. The HN link goes to the app itself because we're impatient, but there is an actual landing page most visitors hit. I've gone back and forth on the UX idea, and while I do agree, it's important
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by piker 1y ago
Hey guys - I really appreciate the love from Hacker News. It's a real honor to get all of these votes and comments. If you like the idea and aren't a lawyer but want to help the project move forward, please suggest Tritium to the

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