TeXMe Demo
Dev tools
markdown renderer
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Rendering quality looks like PDF and reflows well
From 2 comments
Rendering quality is really good. Looks just like PDF.
alexmint on HN> Looks just like PDF. It's better than PDF. Text in PDF is not reflowable. This demo is by virtue of being HTML under the hood. Looks good even after resizing the browser. I…
jimws on HN
Clean, minimal design
From 1 comment
I thought view source tells the story quite well... The document looks very clean.
nxpnsv on HN
Concept of separating content from rendering
From 1 comment
That’s the point of PDFs and EPUBs. If you want resizable PDFs, use EPUB which is an organized and compressed version of HTML. Edit. I think the reason you lose quality during…
bhl on HN
Objections
Breaks with code blocks containing dollar signs
From 2 comments
This project is awesome, but by relying on Commonmark, you can't use this together with code blocks containing $ (meaning it doesn't work for languages like PHP and R). It's…
bachmeier on HN> Why do you need to typeset math within code blocks or code spans? The problem is that commonmark doesn't recognize math at all. If you want to use texme, you can't have code…
bachmeier on HN
Maintenance concerns: old issues unanswered, commit surges before posting
From 3 comments
From a look at the github, there is a sudden "surge" or commits, likely to prepare to present it to hackernews. But overall this github doesn't seem to be maintained and users…
manbash on HNMost repos are interesting but unmaintained, it appears that author brushes up a repo before posting by commit waves and then present on HN.
n_ary on HN> If there are others who might want to help the project by investigating the bugs and/or fixing them, they are very welcome. For any fixes merged to the project, I will be…
n_ary on HN
Needs JavaScript and MathJax fonts, so not usable offline
From 1 comment
Apparently TeXMe needs to load MathJax which in turn needs to load a bunch of fonts, so no, that script alone won't work offline.
oefrha on HN
Static site generators already produce faster pages
From 1 comment
As cool as this is, I just don't really see the use for this, when static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll exist, and produce pages that will load measurably faster...
chabad360 on HN
Requests
Pre-rendered static HTML fallback without JavaScript
From 1 comment
This is brilliant. All we need now is a way for it to fall back to pre-rendered static html for cases where there is no JS, and to be indexed.
ncmncm on HN
Support for theorem environments and cross-references
From 1 comment
I prefer katex [0] over mathjax these days. Seems to render a lot faster. I wonder how this compares to Pandoc in terms of features. I really would like a complete solution to…
foxes on HN
Pre-render formulas client-side cost reduction
From 1 comment
Consider pre-rendering formulas instead of doing it client-side (KateX supports this, dunno about MathJax). In my experience, rendering a lot of equations on screen via MathJax…
snicker7 on HN
Questions
What does self-rendering mean here and how does it differ from existing JS libraries
From 1 comment
I'm not sure I understand what "self-rendering" means in this context? You have some javascript that is taking markdown and spitting out HTML, right? How is that different from…
fastball on HN
Can it be used as an editor
From 1 comment
Given that it’s parsing from a textarea, can TeXMe be used as an editor? I think some contenteditable editors have the rendering from markdown as well.
bhl on HN
Does it support full LaTeX or only math
From 1 comment
is this just latex math or the full latex?
billconan on HN
Alternatives named
Markdeep
From 1 comment
Markdeep [1] does something very similar. (Disclaimer: Not my project, but I've developed several Markdeep-adjacent tools [2][3].) [1]: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ [2]:…
doersino on HN
Jupyter notebooks
From 2 comments
Pretty nice, although these days if when I need Markdown + LaTeX, most often I just create an .ipynb, put it on GitHub (which could render Jupyter notebooks, including…
oefrha on HNHave you tried Jupyter notebooks? I do not know if they handle references, but it does the rest you want. The markdown cella support latex math and you can include figures or…
Foivos on HN
Pandoc
From 1 comment
I prefer katex [0] over mathjax these days. Seems to render a lot faster. I wonder how this compares to Pandoc in terms of features. I really would like a complete solution to…
foxes on HN
RMarkdown
From 1 comment
Have you tried RMarkdown? It is a lot more focused on producing a pdf or html document than what Jupyter is. It even has decent support for cross-references, and for citations…
semi-extrinsic on HN
Hugo and Jekyll
From 1 comment
As cool as this is, I just don't really see the use for this, when static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll exist, and produce pages that will load measurably faster...
chabad360 on HN