Simon Willison’s Weblog

Paper 5 | Scribd (via) A more impressive example of Scribd’s new HTML/CSS document viewer: a mathematics-heavy LaTeX paper by one of Scribd’s engineers.

# 7th May 2010, 12:12 pm / css, html, html5, latex, scribd, recovered

The Python docs have been redesigned for 2.6. They’re beautiful. The docs for a module are on a single page now (rather than splitting over multiple pages), they’ve added unobtrusive permalinks to individual sections and the whole thing is built on ReST rather than LaTeX.

# 18th August 2007, 12:39 pm / documentation, latex, python, rest

Math for the Masses. WordPress.com now supports inline LaTeX. A great example of a feature that will turn a small subset of a user base in to life-long fans.

# 2nd March 2007, 2:44 pm / latex, wordpresscom