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Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
Has anyone had any luck with a free, offline, open-source, real-time speech-to-speech translation app on under-powered devices (i.e., older smart phones)?<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ictnlp&#x2F;StreamSpeech">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ictnlp&#x2F;StreamSpeech</a><p>* <a hr...
Firefox 91 - Revert to old tab style (superuser.com)
Logging is a code smell (dave.autonoma.ca)
KeenWrite: A text editor (github.com)
KeenWrite 3.2.0 (github.com)
KeenWrite 3.2.0 is a significant update: * [Tutorial series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dCui_hHK6U&list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzPIoWZMKu_) that demonstrates its more salient features. * [KeenType](https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keentype), a modernized and optimized [NTS](https://ctan.org/...
Pure Java typesetting system (github.com)
[KeenType 1.0.0](https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/releases/tag/1.0.0) is a 100% pure Java library, forked from [NTS](https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/nts), that can transform plain TeX into SVG documents. Output: * [Equations Document](https://i.ibb.co/q9Zf9gr/keentype-equations.png) *...
Typesetting Markdown – Part 8: Annotations (dave.autonoma.ca)
Part 8 in the series explores pandoc’s annotation Markdown extension, as well as creating themes using ConTeXt. Creating themes and applying them to PDFs was requested from a few other people, so let me know if this part helps address any particular questions you may have had about theming PDFs. Her...
KeenWrite 2.0 (github.com)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 3: Automagicify (dave.autonoma.ca)
KmCaster – Screencasting software to display keyboard and mouse status (github.com)
Scrivenvar: Text editor with built-in R functionality (github.com)
[Scrivenvar](https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar) is an open source, Java-based, desktop Markdown editor that can edit R Markdown files courtesy of [Renjin](https://www.renjin.org/). The editor's software [architecture](https://i.imgur.com/8IMpAkN.png) is different than most other Markdown edit...
KeenWrite 3.6.3 (keenwrite.com)
Write Once, Build Anywhere (dave.autonoma.ca)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 6: Computation (dave.autonoma.ca)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 5: Interpolation (dave.autonoma.ca)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 1: Build Script (dave.autonoma.ca)
Text format feature matrix (keenwrite.com)
KeenWrite 2.6.0 (github.com)
Since the last post about KeenWrite, there have been a number of improvements. Highlights include: * Combine PDF file from multiple Markdown source files (think separate chapters) * Improved image rendering in the preview window * Automatic straight quote to curly quote conversion (see [KeenQuo...
KeenWrite 2.8.1 (github.com)
Making of Impacts – Programming Intersects Art (dave.autonoma.ca)
Typesetting Markdown Blog: What Next?
Some of you have read the Typesetting Markdown blog series (https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/). The plan was to finish the last two parts with *Annotated Text* (basically markup for Markdown) and *Figure Drawing* (MetaPost); however, people have asked for a post on Markdown to EPUB and others have aske...
Typesetting Markdown – Part 2: Tool Review (dave.autonoma.ca)
KmCaster: On-screen key-mouse display software (github.com)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 4: Theme Style (dave.autonoma.ca)
Racism in Technology (dave.autonoma.ca)
KeenWrite 3.5.1 - Captions and cross-references (gitlab.com)
Typesetting Markdown – Part 7: Mathematics (dave.autonoma.ca)
The latest installment of the series tackles a thorny cost-benefit analysis problem that compares electric- to gasoline-powered vehicles, dives into using R for amortization, typesets some math, continues to explore the separation of content from presentation, and expands on the shell scripts from p...
Web of Knowledge (dave.autonoma.ca)
Relational eXpression Map (???) (bitbucket.org)
??? is a terse syntax to help generate structured documents from entity relationship mappings. Its purpose is to remove database- and output-specific code from queries. It is still undergoing development -- features such as aggregation, ellipses references, query execution, modules, and namespace...
Creating Catchy Cover Letters (keenwrite.com)