Exploding PDFs

LaTeX PDFs are made of blocks. The source code is often available for arXiv preprints.

Can this make consumption more fun? Spread out? Exploded onto a space?

Reading, Together

Related: Gerby Project - online tag-based view for large LaTeX documents

When I want to revisit books to gather ideas, to play random flashcard draws or build up a moodboard of ingredients, card-like enumerations might come in handy.

Can I turn Lakoff&Nuñez, for example, into an Oblique Strategies deck? pic.twitter.com/G6wSrsTIhh

— Max Krieger (@maxkriegers) December 19, 2020

(Moodboarding)

WHOA, that‘s even more intense! Can you share a screenshot?

I tried doing a paragraph-on-index card analysis of Bruno Latour’s Visualization & Cognition essay (via @maxkriegers) but I faltered halfway through it (partly because text extraction from PDFs is such a pain!) pic.twitter.com/zF5nfXG4cB

— Eli Parra :ocean: (@elzr) April 21, 2020

What is to reading what a word processor is to writing?

Here's a quick demo of a syntax exploder in honor of Doug Engelbart, father of :dragon: demos, who called similar dreams “parsing processors”.

The text is the first paragraph of Doug’s 1962 framework https://t.co/FmE9xfzdDs pic.twitter.com/Ijg7ZLpNCm

— Eli Parra :gear: (@elzr) March 18, 2021

this is a photo of my study space at this very minute pic.twitter.com/vOtL6kHxZv

— Bret Victor (@worrydream) November 2, 2018

Rob Ochshorn's Americanah demo http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2015/05/americanah-720p.mp4

https://twitter.com/neuralreckoning/status/1382102400031412229?s=19 https://twitter.com/neuralreckoning/status/1382102415441338369?s=21

Pandoc

https://shreevatsa.net/mobius-print/

https://twitter.com/elzr/status/1372391789332725763

https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57249273/how-to-detect-paragraphs-in-a-text-document-image-for-a-non-consistent-text-stru

https://github.com/siefkenj/latex-parser

Assemble an easy to cut printout from block selection

https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber

https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/47980

arXiv vanity

https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo

https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/

https://papertohtml.org

arXiv as importer for Figma plug-in

"stickers" aesthetic

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/967796906003906565

https://austinkleon.com/2021/12/05/reading-with-a-scalpel-and-glue-stick/

https://rasterbator.net/

http://cheapimpostor.com/

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