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With a quick search I can see that the `in-dexter` package [1] provides something quite similar, though I'm not sure if it covers all usecases.
If you want to handroll this yourself you can probably have your `index` emit some `metadata` [2] which you can then `query` [3] for in your `printindex`. All of this would work inside the typst compiler and there would be no need for running an external `makeindex` command.
[1]: https://typst.app/universe/package/in-dexter
[2]: https://typst.app/docs/reference/introspection/metadata/
Thanks. My search found that also, but it didn't appear to have the features I need, at least not at the time. If LaTeX becomes vexing enough, I'll consider the custom workflow you're describing. Thanks for the tips.
It's indexing with imakeidx that's keeping me on LaTeX. Does anyone know offhand the state of indexing with Typst?
Do we have any institutions to point to, other than the Roman Catholic Church, that have survived this long?
gglitch commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year skyfall.dev/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall
The question is at what point the community response stops being beneficial and starts being harmful to the community itself.
I'd say this thread being high on HN's frontpage for many hours* has been beneficial. In addition to calling attention to Hack Club's predicament (and who doesn't love Hack Club?!), it gave a chance for many HN members to post their own relevant experiences, which it turned out there were a lot of—surprisingly many.
But in the later stage of this process, when the thread has basically done its job, drawn attention and generated a response, I think it's harmful to escalate even further and get into a tar-and-feather treatment of poor sods who wander in to offer a "sorry" or "we'll fix it". The dynamic at that point goes from "let's rally together and help these awesome kids, plus hey, something similar happened to us" to something darker and meaner. The former is good for this community, the latter is bad for it.
My point is that we should assess this based on how it affects us. That's handy, because that's information we can access, whereas we can't actually peer into $BigCo to find out whether what happened was a regrettable mistake or a nefarious grab they got caught at.
As long as I'm going on about this I want to repeat what I said in the cousin comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293388): the distinctive quality of internet indignation is unprocessed, opportunistic rage: unprocessed because it is pre-existing in a person (<-- and we all have this) for whatever original reasons that haven't been metabolized yet; opportunistic because it waits for justifiable occasions to lash out, and then lashes out with vengeance. This is not a great way to handle one's rage—it's a recipe for repetition instead of growth. How do I know that? I know it by self-observation, and I believe that anyone who wants to can know it by self-observation.
It's particularly important to know this in a group context. When a group joins together to vent rage—because an occasion justifies it, even though the driver in each person may be very different—that's when a group turns into a mob. This happens easily because it happens without awareness and no one intends it. This is when we become our ugliest, so we should pay attention to signs of it in ourselves and in our groups, and learn to respond differently. Not easy, of course, but a good use to put an internet forum to!
* something, btw, that the community corrected us about - we initially downweighted the thread, which was our mistake. Fortunately we like getting corrected by the community, so it was an easy fix.
@dang I trust you are writing or will eventually write a book about your time here and what you’ve taken from it. I hope I hear about it!
gglitch commented on Ask HN: Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic? · Posted by u/AbstractH24
As others have said, generality of knowledge and skills is the effect, not the cause; the cause is diversity of interests and restlessness.
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gglitch commented on The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction jsomers.net/blog/the-mcph... · Posted by u/jsomers
Don't miss the discussion of McPhee's text editor. I would love to get more details about that. Catnip for this crowd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month