LaTeX.css
Dev tools
css library
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Design: 3 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good work, much needed for putting math on the web
From 1 comment
This is great! Putting anything mathematics-related on the Web and making it look half-decent is such a chore. Thank you for making it easier! MathJax and KaTeX are a great…
romwell on HN
Nostalgic look that evokes LaTeX documents
From 1 comment
Nicely done - it instantly reminded me of that feeling of deep dreading when coming across a latex document so it looks like this is fairly spot on :) Not sure what it is,…
mattlondon on HN
Objections
Does not feel like true LaTeX; hyphenation and spacing are weaker
From 2 comments
Sadly, css/html hyphenation is still pretty awful. And AFAIK on mobile kerning is pretty far off too. So to me it feels more like a latex parody than homage, unfortunately.…
e12e on HNNot bad, though the spacing and kerning are notably inferior. LaTeX would never have that many hyphens, though I suppose it isn't your fault. Nice work!
smabie on HN
Math rendering depends on JavaScript, so it is not pure CSS
From 2 comments
It is a bit dishonest to call it "css" when most of the heavy lifting (the math) is done by javascript.
enriquto on HNOne bit of irony: LaTeX.css can't display math without... JS. (However, there is a solution if you're using Pandoc! Compile via texmath and then…
gwern on HN
Target audience seems niche
From 2 comments
What so it just styles your site to look like a dry academic paper? What use case does this have? I imagine someone out there really needs this and the target audience is small.
diablo1 on HNYeah but it's very edge-casey and not everyone's an academic so the target audience must be very small. Otherwise why write the CSS for it. If I wanted to write a CSS library I…
diablo1 on HN
Requests
Support for automatic numbering and table of contents
From 1 comment
I noticed two big omissions: 1. No automatic numbering (and no automatic table of contents generation). 2. Latex will indent the first line of each paragraph (except the first…
fefe23 on HN
Follow booktabs table style
From 1 comment
Looks great, though I wish the table style followed the recommendations of the \usepackage{booktabs} documentation [1] more closely. [1]…
DominikPeters on HN
Questions
Why some equations render with MathJax and others do not
From 1 comment
Why do some of the equations show up as rendered by MathJax, but others still read `$\mathbb{R}$`?
scythmic_waves on HN
How it differs from existing latexcss project
From 1 comment
how is it different to https://github.com/davidrzs/latexcss ?
rdevnull on HN
Alternatives named
davidrzs latexcss
From 2 comments
how is it different to https://github.com/davidrzs/latexcss ?
rdevnull on HNThere is also https://davidrzs.github.io/latexcss/
dig1 on HN
WiTeX
From 1 comment
Related: https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX or my modified version here: https://gist.github.com/devsnek/9689917c8095febbf48b91c2f8f5a9af
snek on HN