patrickg
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Comment · 14 days ago
(author here)
True, of course. My main area is PDF and typographic programming, so I never think about the world out there...
Comment · 8 months ago
Thank you (author here). I deliberately used the default settings. Typst mentions settings for the line breaking system in the manual (for example you can set the penalties for changing interword spacing between lines), the speedata publisher can switch on margin kerning.
There might be settings to speed up things, so if any of the authors provide me with the settings, I'd be happy to implement those.
Comment · 8 months ago
Correct, I rarely submit something, I wasn't aware that I don't have to fill in all fields.
Comment · 8 months ago
I benchmark six different typesetting systems, typst ist by far the fastest. This article describes why the speedata Publisher is still my choice for producing product catalogs.
Comment · 10 months ago
LuaHBTeX support has improved in the current version (next year's TeX-live), for example support for subsetting fonts.
Comment · 10 months ago
I use the standard binary from TeX-live and use the integrated harfbuzz loader, which works like a charm.
The downloadable ZIP is ready to run and does not need any additional libraries. (That said, I include some helpers, for example for https access. )
Comment · 10 months ago
(Author of speedata Publisher here)
Just a small note: the speedata Publisher ships with a LuaTeX, so you don't need it pre-installed.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is what I do
I have ca. 190 test cases on which I run my software and compare the md5 sums of the resulting PDF. If they are not the same, I create a PNG for every page and compare visually with imagemagick.
The trick is to remove all random stuff from the PDF (like ID generation or such).
This takes about 3 seconds on the M1 Pro laptop. I think this is very much okay.
Links: https://github.com/speedata/publisher/tree/develop/qa (the tests) https://github.com/speedata/publisher/blob/develop/src/go/sp... (the Go source code for the comparison)
Comment · 4 years ago
In which sense “better output quality”?
Comment · 4 years ago
I have a related feeling about TeX. It has superb output quality but the programming is awful. When LuaTeX finally arrived a few years ago, it was possible to do almost everything you have done before in the TeX language (starting with \backslashes) in Lua.
See http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/TeX_without_TeX for an introduction.
I have (shameless plug) created a database publishing software using this technique (https://github.com/speedata/publisher/). Once in a while I have to use LaTeX and it feels a bit old school to do the macro programming.
My next project is to rewrite the TeX algorithms in Go - see https://github.com/speedata/boxesandglue. Already usable but not TeX like in any way (this is just a library, not a frontend software like TeX)
Comment · 4 years ago
Did you try to enforce the AGPL somehow? In the sense that the user that puts it on a (web)server must provide the end user the source code? (The 'A' in AGPL).
Comment · 5 years ago
https://openclipart.org is (somewhat) back. I think this was better browsable and searchable in the past. At least there is some contents available.
These pages are really valuable.