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This site was generated with Hakyll — partly because Haskell is tasteful — using Tufte CSS and the pandoc-sidenote package,If you want to use it, maybe see also the starter files.

with inspiration and a trivial amount of code from sulami’s blog, table of contents code from Vaclav Svejcar, and various tutorials. (I’m not sure there’s enough different to be worth publishing.) I hope the Tufte style is marginally interesting.

There’s no JavaScript to display text and static graphics here! Any that appears will only be for some sensible specific, local dynamic content. There’s no analytics or tracking, basically enforced by Sourcehut hosting anyway. The preferred fonts and CSS for the Tufte style are served from this site (again enforced by Sourcehut, which is fine by me). Cookies, we’ve heard of them.

Most of the markup is in L^AT_EX,Unfortunately not as well supported as pandoc’s markdown in various respects, such as formatting \LaTeX correctly, ironically, but pandoc mostly still makes a decent job.

because I can never remember the various ‘light weight markup’ systems, and get frustrated trying to do things with them, and don’t have such good editor support. I wrote one in the early ’90s(?), and tired of it. AsciiDoc seems best if you must use one, but Pandoc’s markdown is obviously competent. I’ve historically been interested in text-processingThere are still traces of me in the L^AT_EX doc code.

and typography.

Obviously everything is done in the One True Editor.

There is CSS prefers-color-scheme:dark support, but it doesn’t seem to work properly in Firefox, though it does in Brave.

The ^Δ_Λ logo comes from Daresbury Laboratory, where I spent a long time.I never did arrange to be dl@dl.ac.uk.

Latterly it was used only(?) for car park passes, and seemed fair game for another DL, though λ would be more appropriate than Λ if you’re on my computing wavelength.

If you’re puzzled by occurrences of ‘†’, it’s traditional ‘deceased’ (and implicitly lamented), more tasteful than 🪦,HEADSTONE [pdf]

probably more recognizable than ⛼,HEADSTONE GRAVEYARD SYMBOL [pdf]

and more surely in your font.