[image] Get base10 mantissa and exponent of real (eg Float64) The point of the exercise is for printing, into LaTeX Why not typst ? See also Home · Typstry.jl (Sorry, I’ll see myself out :face_with_peeking_eye:)

[image] kevbonham: One thing I did was compress a table quite aggressively - shrank the padding in the cells, made the table text smaller, etc. Then I put it to the side in a column that was only 30% of the width of the page, with text in the other 70%, but to make it clear I put a light gray bo…

[image] zdenek_hurak: I have been using Quarto on a daily basis for some two years. Thanks, those examples look nice.

I know you’re discussing Quarto here, but with Pandoc at least you can target LaTeX output while using Typst syntax for math input, mixed with Pandoc Markdown. See the Conclusion section of Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement [LWN.net] .

[image] yvikhlya: Quarto/Pandoc approach instead of using the latex or typst directly before I make my own (possibly wrong) choice. This depends on the content mostly, not the output requirements. You can tweak output to whatever appearance you prefer in any of these alternatives. For simple…

Like many other I don’t think there’s one single best system but it depends a lot on what you want to do and what constraints you have. I believe that you can get a decent idea whether typst is an interesting tool for you by playing with it for an hour or so. Start with a tutorial and go on to try …

Typst is better suited than LaTeX for sharing with AI. I am a 70 year old mathematician, succeeding to a greater extent than conventional wisdom believes possible at becoming hybrid with AI for my research and coding. I pay $200 monthly for top tier individual access to Anthropic’s models. I have s…

Spot on for both Typst and using AI, which is much more like being a project manager than an individual coder.

If this is true, I find it both appalling and depressing. Being a project manager is my worst nightmare. I only want to solve problems, but now that is being taken away. AI kills the human spirit. All that is left is management :slightly_frowning_face:

Well, sure, just like vibe coding is stupid, mostly. But is it a better use of time to write your own docstrings than to review auto generated?

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A stupid manager at that: Should General have a guideline or rule preventing registration of vibe-coded packages? - #61 by PetrKryslUCSD

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