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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
This is the reason I've never liked LaTeX from a data point view. It's made to be printed out or get to look beautiful on a PDF but was never designed to get you to a HTML file or a Word file.
I've written my thesis in Markdown in the past because of this (best for humans) which can be easily transformed to HTML, Word, PDF and even LaTeX https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
And I think that XML is the best format for machines.
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Confused about the tools available to me. Thesis writing in Markdown?
See, for example, this: https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Markdown for academic papers. We have this https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown (which is the best template I know and on a personal note I've written my thesis with that too) but the whole ecosystem can be still improved.
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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
What are some alternatives?
neatroff - Neatroff troff clone
asciidoctor-latex - :triangular_ruler: Add LaTeX features to AsciiDoc & convert AsciiDoc to LaTeX
yet-another-speed-dial - a modern speed dial for chrome, edge and firefox
tufte-markdown - Use markdown to write your handouts or books in Tufte style.
hyperswarm - A distributed networking stack for connecting peers.
scrivomatic - A writing workflow using Scrivener's style system + Pandoc for output…
notes - A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes.
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
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