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mos6581
Personal blog · mos6581.orgprogrammingsystems
mos6581 is a personal blog at mos6581.org about programming and systems. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Posts introducing RinohType, a 6,500-line Python tool that works like LaTeX. Comments point to its reStructuredText input section and question the vertical spacing in its sample PDF.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
But what's an MVP? That's very subjective. I'm working on a DITA (to PDF) renderer [1] based on rinohtype [2]. About a year ago I was in a startup coaching project. I was advised to put out an MVP ASAP. Since then, I've worked full-time on the project and only now I'm releasing what I believe is an MVP. One year ago, my product was functional, but it didn't allow easily styling the output PDF. I believe this is the…
Comment linking /rinohtype/
on “How to Ship Side Projects”Submitted Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python as a story · 153 points
HN discussionIt supports a reStructuredText format as well, which is explained in the last paragraph of the "Example Documents and Input Formats" section < http://www.mos6581.org/introducing-rinohtype#example-documen... .
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on “Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python”Submitted Exploring an alternative to git-subtree as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI looked at the sample output ( http://www.mos6581.org/files/intro_template.pdf ) and is it just me or does the vertical spacing seem off? (for example, look at the tables and how the text goes right up to kiss the horizontal bars).
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on “Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python”Submitted Exploring an alternative to git-subtree as a story · 14 points
HN discussionRinohType [1] combines a CSS-inspired style sheet system [2] with a powerful layout system based on boxes ("containers"). It currently only outputs to PDF but an SVG backend could be added without too much work... [1] http://www.opqode.com [2] http://www.mos6581.org/rinohtype_status_update_1 (I'm RinohType's author)
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on “Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS”Submitted RinohType Status Update 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis sounds pretty much what I described in http://www.mos6581.org/git_subtree_alternative . This solution splits your changes between different branches at the time of commit, instead of afterwards like git-subtree does. While I do present a proof-of-concept implementation using hooks, a proper implementation would require some changes to the git client, I imagine.
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on “We need a new generation of source control”Submitted Python and the need for speed as a story · 3 points
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