Archive of posts with tag “tex”
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Reducing build time of my blog by 88% by optimizing cross-language invocations
Waiting for my blog to build has been making writing articles unpleasant for me. In order to speed up the building, I revamped my Markdown engine to call Pandoc through FFI and call KaTeX through MiniRacer. I am careful to ensure that the cross-language invocations support multithread operations. This reduces the build time of the full site in production configurations on the CI machine (GitHub provided runners) from 156 seconds to 19 seconds, marking a 88% reduction. -
Text-based visual art in LaTeX
Using the verbatimboxpackage, one can include a text-based visual art in a figure in a document generated by LaTeX. -
I restructured my blog
If you have not noticed, the equations on my blog are now rendered server-side. This change makes it possible for those who turn off JavaScript on their browsers to see the equations. I also updated the theme from Minima v2 to Minima v3. -
How to self-host Overleaf (ShareLaTeX)
It has been a pain setting up Overleaf on my own server. I have finally figured it out and I am sharing my notes here. -
Distinguishing all the letters in handwritten math/physics notes
Personally, I have the demand of handwriting math/physics notes, but an annoying fact about this is that I usually cannot distinguish every letter that may be possibly used well enough. In this article, I will try to settle this problem. -
Typesetting math in emails
After some comparison among solutions, I use KaTeX to typeset math in my emails.
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