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elucidate: Tools for academics transitioning from LaTeX to HTML

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🏰 Design principles

elucidate is a suite of tools intended to ease the transition from writing academic findings in LaTeX to authoring in HTML, which has mature and well-supported accessibility features that LaTeX and PDF cannot yet match. The tools themselves are designed to be accessible, but, in the interest of avoiding reinventing the wheel, some dependencies might be more or less accessible than the site as a whole.

:octocat: Contributing

If you find an issue with elucidate — including accessibility of the tools, content of tutorials, or issue with the interface — please open an issue or pull request on GitHub, being sure to follow the code of conduct.

🎨 Logo explanation

The elucidate logo is composed of a single piece of information, Euler's identity, a famous and fundamental result of mathematics. The formula is presented in the logo via LaTeX typeset math, MathML math markup, and a verbal description of the result, written in Braille. The core message is that there are many ways to present the same information, and that modern accessibility tools should be used to ensure anyone can consume the result.

Incidentally, Leonhard Euler, who discovered the identity in the logo, was almost blind in both eyes, with his eyesight deteriorating over the course of his career. Help from scribes allowed him to continue contributing to the mathematical literature. Euler is such a fundamental figure of math that imagining the field today without his impact is impossible. Visual impairment should never be an obstacle to full participation in any area of STEM.