I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by KPGv2 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:23PM (#48284675)

> what CS PhD students have been doing ~forever.

Or what every researcher has been doing for literally decades (except with other versioning systems, but still typesetting without Word or Adobe).

No need for techbros to pat themselves on the back as innovators.

I typeset my novels in LaTeX and use GIT. I even just clone a base repo whenever I'm going to release another.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by skydhash on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:24PM (#48286160)

I don’t have anything to publish, but one of these days, I’d like to try the troff suite (with eqn, pic, and tbl).

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by dghf on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:22AM (#48293928)

I keep on meaning to try these out: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by kyboren on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @06:38PM (#48286965)

Considering LaTeX came from legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Leslie Lamport's need to typeset a book, and was built on the shoulders of legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Donald Knuth's work on TeX, I think "techbros" can safely pat themselves on the back as innovators in this case.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by KPGv2 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:21PM (#48337906)

It doesn't seem you know what "techbro" means.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by kyboren on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:29AM (#48357338)

Please explain what you think it means.

I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed out that LaTeX was created by Serious People, apparently CS PhDs aren't techbros any more.

So which is it? And who exactly do you think is a self-congratulatory techbro here?

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