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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-17 16:40:14

Once you are done fighting it, documents typeset with #TexLaTeX are pretty damn rad! 🚀
The automations you can put into place to help you focus on the actual writing are really something else:
- different modes for notes, submission, and publishing
- acronym or physical unit expansion only upon first mention
- auto-generated glossary or symbol list
- and of course a ton…

screencast of Zotero PDF viewer with a page of my WIP dissertation open (the topic is quantifying natural CO2 emissions at the Starzach site). The mouse hovers over different elements of the text, each time a popup shows the portion of the linked page, with a little red dot pointing at exactly the referenced element. In this document, this works for physical quantities (e.g. ρCO2 [kg/m³], which pops up the relevant section of the List of symbols), acronyms (e.g. CO2, which pops up part of the g…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-10-01 20:25:13

I upload HTML files to #Brightspace to have more control over my content (writing it in #Emacs #orgmode). It mostly works, but yesterday I discovered BS was corrupting my code examples by applying Mat…

Disabling MathJax in Brightspace
The night before an early class, I discovered that Brightspace was cheating on me. I use HTML files generated outside BS for lab instructions, and normally BS presents them correctly. However, BS is also MathJax capable, i.e., if it sees LaTeX-style maths expressions, it displays them as maths. So if it sees \(\sqrt{2}\) it will present it as the square-root of two, properly typeset. The catch is that BS is indiscriminate about where it sees the \( and \) pairs.