The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad

Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by patrickg on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @04:25AM (#3264796)

Only someone not related to typesetting can say that LaTeX is dead. Exactly the opposite is true. Even though there are good alternatives these days such as InDesign and (I hate to say that:) MS Word (which now has a much better formula editor and OpenType Math fonts), great developments are taking place, for example LuaTeX. Not directly LaTeX but TeX: I have built a high quality database publishing system based on LuaTeX: http://speedata.github.com/publisher/

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by chalst on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:34AM (#3264941)

MS Word: Note that the formula editor is very carefully based on the algorithm in Tex, as MS have documented in a tech report.

Hilariously, they screwed up the implementation, which does not match the specification in their tech report: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20487/why-does-ms-wor...

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by Luyt on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @04:59AM (#3264868)

I think that page could benefit from some examples created by speedataPublisher; now I only see a list of features and requirements, not what I'm able to create with it.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by patrickg on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:36AM (#3264945)

I am working on it. Thanks for pointing it out once more!

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