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Replying to @generativist
I'm amazed there's been so little innovation in the LaTeX space. I want a social science explanation.
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Replying to @george_berry
Hrm.... Very hot take: I think it was so brutally good that people just stopped. Like, if you stick any plain text in a .tex file, it's going to be more readable. But...it didn't really keep up with modern information consumption?
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Replying to @generativist @george_berry
There's a lot of cool things in XeTeX/etc, but distros are fragmented across machines and publishers stick to vanilla LaTeX. So there's a lot of inertia that filters out innovation.
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Replying to @TedPavlic @generativist
I’ve also really been heartened by the RMarkdown approach, although it still has some issues with things like Tikz in HTML docs.
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Replying to @george_berry @TedPavlic
My entire dissertation is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks, - merged with https://github.com/jbn/nbmerge - compiled with https://github.com/jbn/GMU_Dissertation_Pandoc_Tmpl … - tikz with https://github.com/jbn/itikz/blob/master/Quickstart.ipynb … Ignoring the bugs, it's been a good experience!
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Replying to @generativist @TedPavlic
That’s amazing! I just wrote my first thing in RMarkdown and it was a good experience:https://github.com/georgeberry/causal-inference-intro …
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Yea. Anything that makes the distance between your code/analysis and your final document smaller is Good (TM).
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