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by patrickg 7mo ago
Thank you (author here). I deliberately used the default settings. Typst mentions settings for the line breaking system in the manual (for example you can set the penalties for changing interword spacing between lines), the speedata publis
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by patrickg 7mo ago
Correct, I rarely submit something, I wasn't aware that I don't have to fill in all fields.
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Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems(news.speedata.de)
20 points by patrickg 7mo ago|5 comments
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by patrickg 7mo ago
I benchmark six different typesetting systems, typst ist by far the fastest. This article describes why the speedata Publisher is still my choice for producing product catalogs.
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by patrickg 9mo ago
LuaHBTeX support has improved in the current version (next year's TeX-live), for example support for subsetting fonts.
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by patrickg 9mo ago
I use the standard binary from TeX-live and use the integrated harfbuzz loader, which works like a charm. The downloadable ZIP is ready to run and does not need any additional libraries. (That said, I include some helpers, for example for h
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by patrickg 9mo ago
(Author of speedata Publisher here) Just a small note: the speedata Publisher ships with a LuaTeX, so you don't need it pre-installed.
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Mixing Go and Lua(news.speedata.de)
2 points by patrickg 3y ago|0 comments
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by patrickg 4y ago
This is what I do I have ca. 190 test cases on which I run my software and compare the md5 sums of the resulting PDF. If they are not the same, I create a PNG for every page and compare visually with imagemagick. The trick is to remove all
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by patrickg 4y ago
In which sense “better output quality”?
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by patrickg 4y ago
I have a related feeling about TeX. It has superb output quality but the programming is awful. When LuaTeX finally arrived a few years ago, it was possible to do almost everything you have done before in the TeX language (starting with \ba
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by patrickg 5y ago
Did you try to enforce the AGPL somehow? In the sense that the user that puts it on a (web)server must provide the end user the source code? (The 'A' in AGPL).
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by patrickg 6y ago
https://openclipart.org is (somewhat) back. I think this was better browsable and searchable in the past. At least there is some contents available. These pages are really valuable.
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by patrickg 6y ago
There is osxcross: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
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by patrickg 6y ago
I have written a QR encoder in Lua and documented it a bit. Perhaps this goes into the direction? http://speedata.github.io/luaqrcode/docs/qrencode.html
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by patrickg 6y ago
I started with a closed source software but I opened it shortly after. So I didn't start with this in my mind, but since I love open source software, I had the feeling that I should open it and try my luck. I love the idea of the GNU p
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by patrickg 6y ago
I give away my database publishing software ( https://www.speedata.de/ ) for free and make a living with offering services (helping companies producing high quality product catalogs and datasheets etc. using the software) Its
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by patrickg 7y ago
Changelog to 3.0.1 here: https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-changes.html
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Original Bauhaus Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky and More(openculture.com)
126 points by patrickg 8y ago|15 comments
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by patrickg 9y ago
No official support for Mac yet... Interesting anyways, thanks
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by patrickg 9y ago
Data files and source code. Sure I have considered using line wrap, but I don't like it.
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by patrickg 9y ago
Yes, I've had an exchange with the author about this, and he said, it might be possible to tweak this, but his is buried in some obsucure configuration.
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by patrickg 9y ago
I really like Lua and hacking things in Lua, so this editor looks like its what I need. But there is one show stopper, that I have no idea how to avoid: scrolling horizontally on my Mac is terrible slow, and I have lots of files with long l
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by patrickg 10y ago
But it should be possible to a) use a prepaid credit card or b) pay with good old cash. That way it is still possible to buy without getting tracked (while all the others that don't care use the loyalty card).
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by patrickg 10y ago
Not many comments about privacy. This is how I see it: You are identified when you enter the shop and amazon knows exactly the products you buy. If you have the choice to buy or not to buy at the shop, that's fine, it is your decision.
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Original Bauhaus Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky and More(openculture.com)
3 points by patrickg 10y ago|0 comments
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TiSA-Leaks: Fundamental rights shall be levered out for free trade(netzpolitik.org)
4 points by patrickg 10y ago|0 comments
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by patrickg 10y ago
Short answer: no. In theory, it would be possible to increase the speed, but that would include a rewrite of these two font packages. Fontloading is not necessarily slow in Lua(TeX), but the mentioned luaotfload for example deals with all k
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by patrickg 10y ago
(Lua)TeX only renders PDF and only on disc. The great typesetting (especially the math formulae) would make it feasible for such a job. Depending on your need, LuaTeX can be quite fast. I have a project where I use a non-optimized version
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by patrickg 10y ago
No, TeX is not a compiler by a common sense of a compiler (unless you say it compiles to PDF). TeX's input grammer can change during the TeX run, so I believe it is impossible to make an equivalent of LLVM (unless I misunderstand the c

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