ggplotnim VS KeenWrite

Compare ggplotnim vs KeenWrite and see what are their differences.

KeenWrite

Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math. (by DaveJarvis)
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ggplotnim

Posts with mentions or reviews of ggplotnim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
  • Chinchilla Scaling: A Replication Attempt
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    That is certainly true (and why added a general "embed plot data as bitmap into SVG/PDF" option to https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim that works not only for raster heatmaps). But realistically such plots are often not ideal anyway (too many data points in a plot is often a sign that a different type of plot would be better; typically one that aggregates in some way) and it's just another argument to make the data for plots available as well.
  • The Origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art (2015)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2023
  • Converting my PhD thesis into HTML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2022
    Well, personally as I write almost all my code in Nim and am the developer of ggplotnim [0], I simply write a source code snippet with some short Nim code, generate a plot and dump the filename into the Org file.

    If I had more time and wanted something more convenient and magical, I would probably write a elisp function that takes X Y (Z) columns and generates a plot from those using a simple Nim program in the back that receives the data, generates the plot and returns it somehow. Haven't given this much thought though.

    [0]: https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim

  • Anyone attempted to make Nim serve R's role? How is it currently?
    3 projects | /r/nim | 24 May 2022
    I have been using Nim for all of my recent data munging and analysis. There's https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim for plots (among others) and everything else has just been normal code. There's also https://github.com/SciNim/Datamancer if you need something more like tidyverse.
  • ggplotnim: A port of ggplot2 for Nim
    1 project | /r/programming | 5 Jun 2021

KeenWrite

Posts with mentions or reviews of KeenWrite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.
  • Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    68 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    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?

  • Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    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
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
  • MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2023
  • KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
    1 project | /r/Markdown | 24 Jun 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
  • Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
    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

  • “Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    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=(
  • EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
    4 projects | /r/java | 8 Jun 2023
    I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
  • Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2023
    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...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ggplotnim and KeenWrite you can also consider the following projects:

Datamancer - A dataframe library with a dplyr like API

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

boomer - Zoomer application for Linux

marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

napi-nim - Write NodeJS native extensions in Nim

typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

rnim - A bridge between R and Nim

vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode

nim-plotly - plotly wrapper for nim-lang

Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

mathpix-markdown-it - Markdown rendering + Latex extras (equations, tables, ...), with conversion features, for the scientific community

kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!