dustin1114

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by dustin1114 4mo ago
There is a bit of manual tweaking required in LaTeX that I haven't figured out how to automate yet. It's mainly related to chapter endings: if there are only 2 or 3 lines on the last page, I can subtly tighten the tracking from a
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Last I checked, typst doesn't have baseline grid support (i.e., assures vertical lines of text across spreads are aligned, thus text doesn't bleed through recto to verso).
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Asciidoctor was in the running months ago. I like the idea of a single set of files, but yes, word processors are my weakness.
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
typst is great. I experimented with it, it I simply didn't have the fine-tuning and maturity LaTeX. For example, window/orphan control is a binary on/off, while LaTeX calculates by penalties at a much lower level. Pandoc is
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
I use VS Code soft-wrapping, and `git diff --word-diff` does all I need, though there probably are better methods.
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Author here. You're exactly right. All of my pre-grad education was liberal arts. I had never once heard of LaTeX until I entered the software world years later, and even then only from a coworker with a CS PhD.
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Author here. Yes, I wrote the books and glued everything together. If I failed to mention it in the article, it's because I was trying not to self-promote so much. Thanks for the compliment. It really was fun to figure it all out, if t
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
This was an early inspiration for me that I failed to mention in the article. I'm glad you mentioned it. It really does have a lot of good examples, especially the complex lists and diagrams it implements in TeX.
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
I saw typst in my explorations but LaTeX had a few more of the controls I was looking for in print, and I really wanted a Standard Ebooks compliant EPUB. I might revisit at some time though. Thanks for bringing it up.
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Yes! All the typographical techniques and terminology is fascinating (and confusing at times). Widow and orphan control really fight against text justification. Finding the right balance is tricky, but LaTeX has all the little knobs to twea
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by dustin1114 4mo ago
Hi, OP here. I'm glad you enjoyed the writeup. Amateur...you're probably right. It reminds me of my home improvement project I've been working on this evening: interior painting. My ceiling lines are probably perfect to house
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I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline(djspeckhals.com)
286 points by dustin1114 4mo ago|84 comments
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by dustin1114 7y ago
I wrote a relatively simple web application ( https://github.com/DSpeckhals/bible.rs ) about 9 months ago with version 0.7. The initial code changes to migrate to 1.0 weren't that bad ( https://github.com&
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Exploring 4 Languages: Integrity and Consistency(chriskrycho.com)
29 points by dustin1114 8y ago|0 comments
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Pi Day Timer – US PM Time(dspeckhals.github.io)
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by dustin1114 12y ago
The Java (5+) Map interface can be typed using generics (which -- if JS eventually introduces static typing -- I hope is implemented). Map<String, Integer> = new HashMap<String, Integer>(); That declares a Map with a Stri
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by dustin1114 12y ago
It's kind of funny. ES6 seems to be making JS more "Python", while "strong mode" makes it more like Java/C# (at least to me). I'm open to worthwhile changes; I'm just thinking about the tens of thousa
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by dustin1114 12y ago
Agreed. And unless I'm reading the document wrong, this would also be prohibited in strong mode: let x = { keyA: "valueA" }; x.keyB = "valueB";
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by dustin1114 12y ago
I think I like most of what this document proposes except for the following: In strong code, accessing objects (strong or not) throws on missing properties. New object properties have to be defined explicitly and cannot be removed
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by dustin1114 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a son of the Midwest :-) This article hit home for me. Though I technically now live in a medium-sized mid-Atlantic city, the culture here is more like the Midwest. I'm not against the Bay area or NYC, but for me,
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by dustin1114 12y ago
I like the idea of a WP API. I guess in the future you could more easily build non-browser apps that utilize WP data. Of course, there's always going to be the people who don't very much like the whole front-end JavaScript MVC ide
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by dustin1114 12y ago
In regards to "circumstances", I was specifically referring to the gridlock in Congress (since we're posting links, here's one: http://blog.oup.com/2013/10/federalist-papers-government-gri... ),
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by dustin1114 12y ago
I agree, it is national communications policy. But why not try getting a new statute passed that isn't based on telephones from the switch-operator era? It just seems to me that it's being pressed so hard because it's such a
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by dustin1114 12y ago
These circumstances have been happening since the creation of the United States. We act like things move far slower now than they ever have. The government was made to move slow on controversial issues. Still, the closest thing we have to a
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by dustin1114 12y ago
It seems to just be more federal regulation from DC. I'm as much of a fan of a free and open internet as anyone, but why risk the FCC getting involved? Also, can anyone honestly see rates being reduced because of this? Sure, all of us
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by dustin1114 12y ago
I code for the thrill and pleasure of the creativity involved. As an add-on, it provides for my family.
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by dustin1114 12y ago
You could try CoffeeScript. It takes away a lot of what people don't like about JavaScript out, and replaces it with a decent syntax. I personally love well written vanilla JavaScript, but CoffeeScript might give you a little better ex
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by dustin1114 12y ago
After hearing about the idea of a phone from Amazon, I really thought they'd do more. I like to buy things from Amazon (like many here probably do), and thought that the phone would be competitively priced. It wasn't in my mind; a
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by dustin1114 12y ago
It was refreshing to see something like this on HN. I'll have to look into it. Thanks!
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by dustin1114 12y ago
That's pretty neat: I discuss an interesting subject with someone on Hacker News that directly affects my current industry, but I am a few levels down in the supply chain. I deal more with product distribution and logistics, while you

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