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gpresent
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
It's funny, I looked at the "Typesetting Mathematics -- User's Guide (Second Edition)" postscript document, and - at least with macOS' Preview - some big brackets are segmented (Neatroff brackets don't seem to do this, although I've seen it in other troff generated documents), and they even say this:
> Warning — square roots of tall quantities look lousy, because a root-sign big enough to cover the quantity is too dark and heavy
The solution is naturally to rewrite big roots as powers.
pic does seem close to Tikz, although I had to look in the GNU pic doco to figure out how to do colors. Even then, transparency didn't seem to be supported?
Heirloom actually looks the most useful/mature. At least the output looks pretty/someone cared enough to make the example files pretty, there's actual documentation. Limitations are still there (having to convert bitmaps to EPS?). I will say I'm at least slightly impressed by `gpresent`, which is like beamer (so for making presentations), and built-in hyphenation support.
I still don't get Neatroff. It's compatible with/implements a lot that Heirloom does, but then the font support is worse again? It's an impressive project though, the source is very readable, and RTL/LTR support. Less impressive is the lack of a license - I think it's ISC, based on a single comment, but who knows?
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A repository and a makefile are distinctly different than an installer. Random macro packages that may or may not be on GitHub are different than `tlmgr`. Piping stuff around and having to convert images is different than just one command. GUI editors. Example documents (like https://texample.net/). That is what I mean by ecosystem.
XeTeX outputs PDFs by default (granted, via xdvipdfmx), and can also include bitmaps directly (again, granted it needs graphicx or something). All TeX stuff isn't without it's warts, and seems overly complex (pdfTeX/XeTeX/XeLaTex/LuaTeX/ConTeXt, etc). But in practice, it kinda somehow just works (until it doesn't).
[0] https://github.com/rhaberkorn/gpresent
asciidoctor-latex
- Typst, a modern LaTeX alternative written in Rust, is now open source
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
How close does AsciiDoctor + asciidoctor-latex get to that? https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-latex
I've only been using Asciidoctor for a few weeks but I'm already an MD convert.
What are some alternatives?
neatroff - Neatroff troff clone
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
yet-another-speed-dial - a modern speed dial for chrome, edge and firefox
phd_thesis_markdown - Template for writing a PhD thesis in Markdown
hyperswarm - A distributed networking stack for connecting peers.
22120 - 💾 Diskernet - Your preferred backup solution. It's like you're still online! Full text search archive from your browsing and bookmarks. Weclome! to the Diskernet: an internet on yer disk. Disconnect with Diskernet, an internet for the post-online apocalypse. Or the airplane WiFi. Or the site goes down. Or ... You get the picture. Get Diskernet. 80s logo. Formerly 22120 (project codename) ;P ;) xx;p [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/Diskernet]
hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
wasabi - Wasabi A/B Testing service is an open source project that is no longer under active development or being supported
notes - A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes.