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mccWatching https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/text/instructions.html#folded-instructions load in and realizing with fridge horror that somebody made a web page by just writing TeX into a .html file and then onLoad running a JavaScript that re-interprets the tex into HTML
Sylvhem@mcc Man made horror behind comprehension.
Evan Prodromou@mcc whaaaaaaaaaa
Darius Kazemi@mcc I've heard rumors that JavaScript is turing complete so this seems at least theoretically possible
cassie@mcc its normal for mathematicians, this is enriching to them
eblu@mcc that's an entire web component. jesus christ
@mcc oh it's an entire thing apparently https://www.mathjax.org/
Shae Erisson@mcc holy 💩 that's terrifying!
Matt Panaro@mcc I've always wondered, given the web's origin & initial use-cases, why browsers haven't always natively supported TeX, in addition to HTML…
Andrew Gallagher@mcc That is cursed. Also, Knuth and Lamport would be horrified by the kerning it produces in the quote blocks under mobile safari.
@andrewg I find the output of whatever this is (mathjax?) phenomenally hard to read overall, in addition it breaks CTRL-F. I had to switch to the PDF.
R@mcc @andrewg "wtf how did they even do that? what does the markup look like?
oh. OH NOES"
apparently it produces a sea of _empty_ custom elements, with the actual letters filled in *using CSS*
Aslak Raanes@r @mcc @andrewg And at the same time ordinary html and css can now do breaking paragraphs into nice lines https://front-end.social/@jensimmons/114302836749050140
Jen Simmons (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216. It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines. https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/
@mcc @andrewg last post in this thread, but i suspect that the mathjax web fonts just have broken font metrics that safari is applying workarounds to while other browsers are ignoring
both MathJax_Zero and MathJax_Typewriter-Regular have differently totally wrong ascent/descent metrics (but reasonable x-height and cap-height), and i can't even figure out where the font source code *is*
_everything_ here is cursed
Cassandrich
BrazMogu (i.e. Bruno Guedes)
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.
Rob
gizmomathboy, FC
David JONES@andrewg cross-stream (ie, vertical) kerning. hehe.
Ronflaix
Anders Lindqvist@mcc That is sortof what markdeep does. Convenience that the html file works with git etc.
@mcc it's somehow about as slow as TeX running on an IBM 3084 (about 5 MIPS)
Lapo Luchini@mcc «realizing with fridge horror» seams pretty on spot.