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		enriquto on May 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical no... I love this idea, but the practicality of it all does depend a lot on the language used to describe the diagrams. I have seen impressive "single file" LaTeX articles, where the figures were carefully crafted in Tikz, and the source code of the figures was all but readable.

norswap on May 29, 2019 [–]

I think the point is precisely that this is much more declarative than something like Tikz.

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