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LaTeX for tabletop

Started by Vladar, April 15, 2023, 02:20:58 PM

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Grognard GM

#15
May 05, 2023, 11:02:16 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 28, 2023, 10:32:11 PMMy boy is using LaTex for his university assignments...

Wouldn't he get better grades for using Latinx?



I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

See below:

https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

GeekyBugle

#16
May 08, 2023, 11:20:40 PM
Quote from: Grognard GM on May 05, 2023, 11:02:16 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 28, 2023, 10:32:11 PMMy boy is using LaTex for his university assignments...

Wouldn't he get better grades for using Latinx?



Badabum tssss!
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Howard

#17
May 08, 2023, 11:44:36 PM

Quote from: Grognard GM on May 05, 2023, 11:02:16 PM


Wouldn't he get better grades for using Latinx?


Some of us use UNIX or Linux, neither of which play those games. Heck, it doesn't even recognize the fairer sex:

Vladar

#18
May 20, 2023, 06:43:15 AM
New blog post:
LaTeX and its fancy fonts: An introduction to text formatting in LaTeX.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-and-its-fancy-fonts/
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Vladar

#19
June 17, 2023, 08:42:04 AM
Continuing with the LaTeX text formatting, here's a quick guide for spacing and decoration.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-text-spacing-and-decoration/
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Eirikrautha

#20
June 17, 2023, 02:51:24 PM
Good stuff!  Thanks!

Vladar

#21
July 15, 2023, 02:40:03 PM
Since we already figured out the document structure, fonts management, and text control, it's a good time to get to page properties and layout.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-page-geometry-and-layout/
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Vladar

#22
August 19, 2023, 11:51:11 AM
Basics of floating environments in LaTeX.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-floats/
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Vladar

#23
September 17, 2023, 12:24:27 PM
Getting started with LaTeX tables.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-tables-basics/
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Vladar

#24
October 24, 2023, 03:26:19 PM
Diving deeper in the complexities of LaTeX tables.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-tables-advanced-features/
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Vladar

#25
November 02, 2023, 04:37:13 PM
One of the projects I'm currently experimenting with, is a LaTeX template to imitate the typewriter style of old homebrew RPG zines. The demo pages of the current state of the package are presented below.

If you have any ideas or wishes for the features, the package should be able to do, let me know.

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Cathode Ray

#26
November 05, 2023, 11:52:40 AM
I read through your web log a bit, and understand more of what you're doing.  I love the idea, having made my own RPG from scratch, intended to mimic this style.

Is this LaTex open-source, and are you going to design your own old-school game from this project?
Creator of Radical High, a 1980s RPG.
DM/PM me if you're interested.

Howard

#27
November 13, 2023, 07:21:36 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 05, 2023, 11:52:40 AM
I read through your web log a bit, and understand more of what you're doing.  I love the idea, having made my own RPG from scratch, intended to mimic this style.

Is this LaTex open-source, and are you going to design your own old-school game from this project?

Yes, LaTeX is open source (as probably are TeX and other "under the hood" components, but I'm not going to hunt them down). While it doesn't use the more well known GPL, it is compatible enough that it ships with most (all?) Linux distros (they tend to be picky about closed source software which is why I bring it up). Extract from https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/

The LaTeX project public license is a free software license. The most recent version of the LPPL is version 1.3c.

Vladar

#28
November 14, 2023, 02:52:56 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 05, 2023, 11:52:40 AM
Is this LaTex open-source [...]

It is open-source, as was already mentioned above.

Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 05, 2023, 11:52:40 AM
[...] are you going to design your own old-school game from this project?

Already did: https://vladar4.github.io/itdr/



New post: Including graphic files into a LaTeX document.

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-images/
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Howard

#29
November 14, 2023, 06:52:42 PM
Some additional context: while there have been several forks of the "official" LaTeX packages over the years (I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu switched at least once in the last 15 years), they have an incredible degree of backwards compatibility. My resume in it's 1994 incarnation (and written on SunOS 4.1.3) still renders correctly with version shipped with the newest Long Term Support version of Ubuntu (released April 2022). This means any content you create today won't require any significant (probably any) tweaks to process in 2055. [This would presumably only come into play if one were switching between UK/USA spellings or something similar as the typical endpoint for a LaTeX document is a PDF or postscript document.] Contrast this with a document written with a 30 year old version of Microsoft Word (or dead word processors).

Throw in placing the content into Git, as Vladar has done, and you have a large degree of future-proofing.
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