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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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RPN as equation formatting www.nongnu.org/skribilo/doc/user-9.html#equations
Fortunately, the eq package allows for the use of a much simpler syntax.

;; The golden ratio, phi.
(eq '(= phi (/ (+ 1 (sqrt 5)) 2)))

Ex. 37: Example of a simple equation

... produces:
φ = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2
Once again it proves that a regular sociology student can go much farther with Scheme than with RMarkdown/Office 365

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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tl;dr: Skribe's bibliography format is cleaner, and much less error-prone, than \LaTeX's.

Here's Skribe's bibliography format:
(book as:sicp
   (author "Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman")
   (title "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs")
   (year "1985")
   (publisher "MIT Press")
   (address "Cambridge, Mass., USA"))


The current open standard is the BibLaTeX one, which looks like this:
@book{sicp
   author = {Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman},
   title = {Structure and {I}nterpretation of {C}omputer {P}rograms},
   year = {1985},
   publisher = {{MIT} {P}ress},
   address = {Cambridge, {M}ass., {USA}},
}


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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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My last highlight ITT is the excellent tooling around the Scheme language, from which Skribe is derived, to build your own blog (with a bit of CSS) and/or export your documents as PDF with \LaTeX.

Thanks to Guix your students probably won't have a wifi connection, but they won't need it because they'll be able to:

- export their documents as PDFs offline,
- build their websites offline thanks to Haunt and git(7) CI,
- manage their PKS offline thanks to the Denote standard (which lets you rename documents according to their creation/publication date, title, and keywords)
- read the docs offline,
- read SICP offline (guix install sicp info-reader)…

Not to mention GNU Guile, which superpowers Scheme and Emacs Lisp programs (with Lua support underway), in which Denote is implemented as part of the GNU project, which has incumbated at the MIT.

Your regular humanities students can do all of these tasks with the tools that exist today, for free, with minimal IT support (and no IT support for Skribe authoring).

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