A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math

Re:A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math by fit2rule on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:32AM (#22025782)

We've had image support in terms possible for years. I don't think that's what's needed to make a nice command line math program.

Instead, we need term programs that can handle type ligatures better. Being able to use something like FF Chartwell in a terminal would be amazing .. and would lead the way to having properly formatted mathematical notation in the terminal, without requiring a new standard to implement. Ligatures are already a thing - they just need to be better supported by the term apps.

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Re:A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math by albertzeyer on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:46AM (#22025835)

You probably mean SIXEL? That is very limited, has drawbacks, and is not supported by many terminals (not exactly sure why, maybe too complicated, or too ugly). It's also discussed exactly in that thread. Developers from tmux, iTerm, mintty, xterm.js, Kitty, and others are in there.

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Re:A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math by unicas on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:57AM (#22026523)

A cheer for sixel ;) https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ https://github.com/nilqed/latex2sixel

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Re:A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math by fit2rule on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:56AM (#22025871)

SIXEL for displaying bitmap images, yes.

But I mean that term apps should have better support for ligatures - as in font/type ligatures - for doing proper mathematics.

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Re:A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math by pmkary on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:11AM (#22025923)

Also there is a deep need for better fonts. Currently only Menlo renders things right.

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