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?
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.
— Max Krieger (@maxkriegers) December 19, 2020
Can I turn Lakoff&Nuñez, for example, into an Oblique Strategies deck? pic.twitter.com/G6wSrsTIhh
WHOA, that‘s even more intense! Can you share a screenshot?
— Eli Parra :ocean: (@elzr) April 21, 2020
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
What is to reading what a word processor is to writing?
— Eli Parra :gear: (@elzr) March 18, 2021
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
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://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/
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/
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