#lout — Public Fediverse posts

Excited to share my free PDF booklet: "SILE and the Hydra of Maths: Showcase & Critical Assessment 2024".
It chronicles my journey enhancing math support in #SILE, exploring challenges & insights across:
#MathML, #TexLatex #MathJax, #Unicode, #UnicodeMath, #Typst, #Lout, #AsciiMath, #OpenType and more.
What a journey!
Dive in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGHIHUU9dsAsMBrGYotPUO0XyDLwD-CF

Excited to share my free PDF booklet: "SILE and the Hydra of Maths: Showcase & Critical Assessment 2024".
It chronicles my journey enhancing math support in #SILE, exploring challenges & insights across:
#MathML, #TexLatex #MathJax, #Unicode, #UnicodeMath, #Typst, #Lout, #AsciiMath, #OpenType and more.
What a journey!
Dive in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGHIHUU9dsAsMBrGYotPUO0XyDLwD-CF

Excited to share my free PDF booklet: "SILE and the Hydra of Maths: Showcase & Critical Assessment 2024".
It chronicles my journey enhancing math support in #SILE, exploring challenges & insights across:
#MathML, #TexLatex #MathJax, #Unicode, #UnicodeMath, #Typst, #Lout, #AsciiMath, #OpenType and more.
What a journey!
Dive in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGHIHUU9dsAsMBrGYotPUO0XyDLwD-CF

Excited to share my free PDF booklet: "SILE and the Hydra of Maths: Showcase & Critical Assessment 2024".
It chronicles my journey enhancing math support in #SILE, exploring challenges & insights across:
#MathML, #TexLatex #MathJax, #Unicode, #UnicodeMath, #Typst, #Lout, #AsciiMath, #OpenType and more.
What a journey!
Dive in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGHIHUU9dsAsMBrGYotPUO0XyDLwD-CF

Excited to share my free PDF booklet: "SILE and the Hydra of Maths: Showcase & Critical Assessment 2024".
It chronicles my journey enhancing math support in #SILE, exploring challenges & insights across:
#MathML, #TexLatex #MathJax, #Unicode, #UnicodeMath, #Typst, #Lout, #AsciiMath, #OpenType and more.
What a journey!
Dive in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGHIHUU9dsAsMBrGYotPUO0XyDLwD-CF

@leaverou I think one thing different with #Lout https://github.com/william8000/lout was that it could break paragraphs into pages.

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/
#ycombinator #Skribilo #document_programming #document_formatting #authoring #Scheme #Guile #Skribe #Lout #LaTeX #HTML

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/
#ycombinator #Skribilo #document_programming #document_formatting #authoring #Scheme #Guile #Skribe #Lout #LaTeX #HTML

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/
#ycombinator #Skribilo #document_programming #document_formatting #authoring #Scheme #Guile #Skribe #Lout #LaTeX #HTML

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/
#ycombinator #Skribilo #document_programming #document_formatting #authoring #Scheme #Guile #Skribe #Lout #LaTeX #HTML

Twenty years ago, I wrote an #XSLT stylesheet that, given some #XML document, produces input for the #Lout formatter to generate a tree diagram of this document. You can specify an XPath expression to highlight the selected nodes. This is obviously useful for teaching, but I never got around updating it to remove the dependency on Lout, so for the last ten years, I’ve been using the same examples for which I had PDFs.

Until today!

It’s been 30 years and 1 day since #Lout was first released:
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.misc/msg/38e344608db9f22e

If you’ve never heard about it (likely!), Lout is a purely functional #typesetting system (think TeX/LaTeX) that offers a *lot* in one MiB!
https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lout/lout-3.40-user.ps.gz

#lout

I remember getting to master #Lout rather quickly ~20 years ago.

Now I’ve been using #LaTeX on and off for a dozen of years, and I still have no clue what’s going on, I find myself typing stuff in a search engine and pasting answers.

Is that expected? 🤔