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WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool

Tom Wildenhain · 403.1K views · 2018-03-29 · 5:13

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Overview

Tom Wildenhain's SIGBOVIK 2018 presentation of WordTeX, a Microsoft Word template that mimics LaTeX typesetting output. It is a joke research project executed with serious effort.

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HN people recommend it as an entertaining example of great effort on a trivial problem, and cite the template in LaTeX-versus-Word discussions.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2025

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Graphic design & typographySatire & parody
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What people said

UncleMeat · 2023-07 · Strong recommendation

Sigbovik is a joke conference put on by CMU students. About 80%-90% of the papers each year are pure jokes, but about 10-20% of them are jokes that have a nontrivial amount of work backing them up. These papers are awesome. Tom publishes at least one every year (sometimes 3-4) and his papers are among the best but there are others that are also awesome. It hits a very fun combination of hard work on trivial problems that is fascinating. They publish a proceedings every year and they are fun reads. Not a lot of people do accompanying videos like Tom does, but this one on WordTeX is excellent: [VIDEO]

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gitgud · 2020-05 · Recommendation

If you're a fan of this, you might like; "WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool" [1] [VIDEO] (video)

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amhouse · 2018-08 · Recommendation

There's also WordTeX, a "WYSIPCTWOTCG" editor. There's a paper [1], but this is a rare case where the Youtube video [2] is both more entertaining and the medium lets the content shine. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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