LaTeX Talks from the Tug Conference 2023 in Bonn

Re:LaTeX Talks from the Tug Conference 2023 in Bonn by thangalin on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:22AM (#38428861)

> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX.

My FOSS desktop editor, KeenWrite[1], converts Markdown to XHTML, XHTML into TeX, then TeX into PDF. Users may drop into TeX itself for math, if needed. Behind the scenes, KeenWrite passes the document to ConTeXt along with a theme.[2] The theme abstracts away most of the complexities of TeX.

There isn't a resume theme, yet, though there are some available for ConTeXt that would be tempting to abstract.[3]

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

[3]: https://github.com/BruXy/resume

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Re:LaTeX Talks from the Tug Conference 2023 in Bonn by unhammer on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:30AM (#38429641)

KeenWrite looks very nice :-) How does it compare to LyX?

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Re:LaTeX Talks from the Tug Conference 2023 in Bonn by thangalin on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#38434536)

LyX and KeenWrite are altogether different. My focus for KeenWrite has been twofold: writing a sci-fi novel with a complex timeline wherein I can easily insert variables directly in the document (i.e., partial value followed by control+space) and using it at work for living technical documentation (i.e., R statements for plots, Kroki for diagrams, command-line for CI/CD pipeline integration, and plain TeX for basic math).

LyX, like LaTeX, doesn't force a separation of content from presentation. KeenWrite is focused on Markdown, with PDFs being a transformation of plain text. For more control over the output, KeenWrite adopts pandoc-style annotations. The selected theme can style the annotations as desired.

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