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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      It doesn't help that (sure, sound historical reasons...) none of the conventions are in any way related to the rest of the tech world. OK, I need a math symbol here -- what's the unicode for that? WTF do you mean it doesn't use Unicode? 1/

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    2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      It swaps in racks of 256-long arrays of characters, like a cave-man DOS overlay? You can NOT be serious? And it's all built on top of that??? //

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jan 2019
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      It’s pretty strange that there hasn’t been a replacement.

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    4. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      Yeah, a long chain of augmentations, from pdftex through luatex and xetex, but no-one said "to heck with this; let's reimplement the DDL and algorithms on top of a much easier to use basis". If nothing else, seems like a more useful geek project than creating yet another language

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jan 2019
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      This is one attempt. Right idea; seems to lack momentum. http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/ 

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    6. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      Interesting! But it's hardly a promising start that their samples show "look, we're prettier than Word for pure text" rather than "look, here's a page of complicated math including Feynman and category diagrams"... It's like they're missing the concerns of 99% of TeX users!

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jan 2019
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      Well, the people who use TeX use it because (1) there’s nothing else they can use and (2) they are geeks who can somehow sort of use it. An *easily* programmable typesetting system that doesn’t do math at all potentially has a much larger user base.

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    8. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      Perhaps. But if THAT is what you want, why not use LyX right out the box? LyX is not a GREAT UI, but it's really not that bad. (I'd prefer to give it to a naive user rather than Word.)

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    9. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 1 Jan 2019
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      The only people who care how horrible it is to fiddle with TeX are people doing serious typesetting, which is MOSTLY math/physics/chemistry people (though you get the occasional unusual languages folks, or musicians, or chess heads and suchlike).

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jan 2019
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      I’m a bit of a typography geek, and want ordinary English text output to look “good,” which LaTeX output doesn’t. Frustrating because obviously the underlying engine can in principle be made to produce “good” output, but the layers on top get in the way.

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      I’m somewhat more hopeful about bullying ConTeXt into doing what I want, but that’s not easy either.

      11:35 PM - 1 Jan 2019
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