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TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML

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137 points steventhedev | 2 comments | 20 Apr 25 22:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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frumplestlatz ◴[21 Apr 25 00:22 UTC] No.43747564[source]▶
Using a “core dump” (dumping the webassembly heap) is an interesting optimization approach with historical precedent both in TeX itself and projects like Emacs (dump/unexec) — https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...

It’s also notoriously fragile and non-portable on native targets; I’m curious how one implements it under webassembly, and how it compares.

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1. kisonecat ◴[21 Apr 25 11:40 UTC] No.43750785[source]▶
Author of TikZJax here...

I'm endlessly distracted by other things at work, but I believe this same idea could also be used to provide real-time compilation of TeX'd documents as they're typed. Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo had suggested wanting something like a real-time Overleaf to teach his classes at https://eulercircle.com/ Interrupting and resurrecting the TeX-in-the-browser would let you render a document as it is typed.

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2. svat ◴[26 Apr 25 01:39 UTC] No.43800152[source]▶
See also (if you haven't already) SwiftLaTeX ( https://www.swiftlatex.com/ https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX ) and their paper (DOI: 10.1145/3209280.3209522 ).