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KeenWrite
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel that has a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that would allow me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
Tutorials:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Here's what I mean by using variables directly:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg
CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. Would anyone find the editor more appealing if it had cross-references and citations?
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].
KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".
[1]: https://kroki.io/
[2]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
- On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
- MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
- KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
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Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0
The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
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“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...
My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources:
DEPENDENCIES=(
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EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
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Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.
Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.
I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...
typst
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
https://github.com/typst/typst looks promising, both the language and the tooling. I wonder where it will find its place in a world that is dominated by either Word or LaTex.
- Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
I hope in a couple of years we start seeing posts like these with Typst instead of LaTeX. It seems like setting this up would be a bit easier since Typst is much more concise than LaTeX.
[0] https://github.com/typst/typst
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I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)
For writing math notes (especially in vim), I switch to using Typst (https://typst.app).
Here's a few points:
- The syntax is a lot lighter and easier to type fast. I was up and running in half hour after starting to use it. Once in a while I can look up some symbol name in the docs but that's about it.
- Empty document is a valid document. No preambles, no includes etc, it's all optional and the defaults are sensible. Just start typing.
- It's incremental. Live preview from neovim is in the browser and it's lightning fast, pretty much immediate. No pdf sync pain. No build files, makefiles and all that. Just start typing.
While it's not going to beat latex in terms of serious academic use, for personal use and notes it's close to perfect.
(And of course it's written in Rust...)
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I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
Except the main theme, which was HTML export? https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/721
Though it's in the roadmap!
- Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
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"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
I don't use LaTeX for anything these days but Typst popped up recently and seems like a decent alternative: https://github.com/typst/typst
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Which software do you use to create presentations using Vim that is superior to existing ones?
I am surprised that no one mentions the typst. It is super smooth with typst-preview.
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Bibliography CSL
I suggest you ask in the discord channel: https://discord.gg/2uDybryKPe. Or open an issue or question on GitHub: https://github.com/typst/typst
- Besseres Schreibprogramm als Word?
What are some alternatives?
markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim
asciidoctor-latex - :triangular_ruler: Add LaTeX features to AsciiDoc & convert AsciiDoc to LaTeX
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
typst.nvim - WIP. Goals: Treesitter highlighting, snippets, and a smooth intergration with neovim.
vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode
typst-lsp - A brand-new language server for Typst, plus a VS Code extension
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
json-resume-template - JSON-based standard for resume
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!
tree-sitter-typst - A TreeSitter parser for the Typst File Format
xenops - An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents
pandoc - Universal markup converter