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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
You'll probably want to try CetZ!
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Said like a latter-day William Jardine. Maybe one day we'll have our Commissioner Lin.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_(coin)
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
An older CS professor (whose book, I’m guessing, about half of HN posters have read) told me essentially the same thing. He’s one of the best people to talk to in the department. Kind, passionate and compassionate, interested first and fore
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
The 70s? Manin and Feynman proposed the idea in 1980.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Without. I’ve recently tried using Claude, though, for things like mathematical drawings, and it works pretty well with a little back-and-forth and debugging. Especially with similar example code in context.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. Plus, you're not supposed to notice any of this. If you do, the TeX masters will put their fingers in their ears and tell you it's PEBKAC. "Get good, n00b. RTFM. It's not happeni
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Oh yeah, I can’t imagine most people are using their web editor thing. Good for them that they have it, I guess. It looks like it’s done well, a strong competitor for Overleaf. I’ve never even opened it, though, to be honest. It is a little
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Amazing, thanks!
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Hey, I've had the same problem with duplicate citation keys! I couldn't find an issue on it. One of us should file a bug report.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Good stuff, nothing but respect for that kind of work. AMO people are a different breed. Spending all day interpreting power spectral densities and tracking down ground loops takes a certain je-ne-sais-quoi. Literally. Last time I used a mi
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
You wrote an analog thesis about 31 years ago, analog31? You've been playing the long game with this account! Appreciate the story, thanks for sharing. Can I ask what your thesis was on (in whatever way isn't too personally-identi
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
I wouldn't count on it! For me, it's been invaluable for notes and memos (and my thesis). When it comes time to submit a paper, I transcribe everything to LaTeX. It's a pain, but it's a lesser pain than transcribing from
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
:)
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Ugh, unfortunately it means "please note that I'm not an unserious person." Very often when you have opinions on software on the internet, trolls will jump out of the hedgerow and shout, "who are you to have an opinion
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Ouch ouch ouch. My sympathies :)
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Yeah, absolutely, the sheer number of moving parts is related to this. There's TeX-the-language, there's LaTeX-the-format (a big layer of macros and conventions), the different LaTeX standards (LaTeX2ε, LaTeX3, whatever, I don&#x2
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Indeed! It undeniably succeeded at setting the standard for typesetting quality. Big ups to Don K.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Yep, I'm a CS researcher in a top-3 department. (Hate to be all credentialist like that, but I'm guessing it does mean something to this audience.) I think a lot of the reason is that, ok, LaTeX is extremely complicated. We all kn
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
It's night and day. I'm a PhD student currently writing my thesis in Typst. On paper this is an absurdly risky decision: it's a new technology without a huge user-base, it's not totally stable yet, etc. But I tried Typst
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
In my experience, the hiccups with packages are of a different kind than those with LaTeX packages. They’re more often “normal programming” hiccups where a function is poorly-documented, or there’s simply a bug. LaTeX packages can cause big
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Actually, you can’t specify macros anywhere . Unlike TeX, it’s a real honest-to-goodness programming language with functions and types and modules (yes! It has namespaces!) instead of just macros on macros on macros. It’s not perfect, they
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Yesterday I had Claude write me a simple 3d renderer using the CetZ package (typst’s Tikz) to draw illustrations of surfaces for a math paper. It pretty much nailed it.
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Is it just me or is the dam starting to break on all kinds of truth-telling that were long taboo in this sort of space? I don’t think this post would have been so well-received on HN even a couple of years ago.