LaTeX

[johari]

A spreadsheet is a low-key replacement for $ make.

FaM used to have support for mathematical formulas through extracting them from the markdown and piping them to a cached IO worker that turned latex formula into svg.

We are slowly integrating FaM inside Minicell (#55), and it's realistic to think of running shell workers like that to get beautiful typesetting. Later on, we can also add support for PDF inside cells (along with formulas that cut a page from pdf, or a portion of a page, related to #22) and with support for string interpolation (#36), we can use Minicell itself to compile non-trivial tex files (like an academic paper) into a pdf.

I see a real opportunity here, but before we can move on with this issue, we need to be finish with #36 and #51 (perhaps even a basic support for Haxl?)

[johari]

LaTeX is amazing, but it is hell to come up with nice-looking tables in LaTeX. Spreadsheets can conveniently design and stylize tables, but there is no way to take a range on a spreadsheet and convert it to LaTeX.

This issue, at first, step, will implement a =TEX(·) formula that takes a range and will output a ESLit containing a latex snippet that will render to the passed range.