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Close-up of an ornate Modernist window with a bone-like stone frame, characteristic of Gaudí's Casa Batlló. The upper portion features circular stained-glass panels in vibrant reds, oranges, and purples resembling swirled discs. Through the lower glass panes, a crystal chandelier with lit candle-style bulbs is visible, casting a warm glow against a red-orange interior.
View down a narrow Barcelona street lined with historic multi-story buildings featuring wrought-iron balconies. An ornate black cast-iron street lamp with four globe lights hangs prominently in the center, suspended between buildings. Similar decorative lamps recede into the distance, where a domed building is visible against a pale evening sky. Pedestrians walk along the street below, and traffic signs are mounted on the right.
Looking up between two buildings at the intricate Gothic spire of Barcelona Cathedral. The tall, tapering stone tower features elaborate openwork tracery, pinnacles, and a statue topped with a cross at its peak. A gargoyle juts out from the cathedral's stonework in the mid-ground. The scene is framed on the left by a dark brick building and on the right by a smooth ochre-colored wall with a balcony, set against a clear blue sky.
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GitHub - tectonic-typesetting/tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. (github.com)

I don’t know when I last (ever?) felt excited in the context of LaTeX. But tectonic just made me actually excited for that ecosystem. It’s a self-contained Rust binary that comes with some nice things, like (by default) not writing out intermediate files and automatically doing the weird “run latex and bibtex for some number of times”-loop.

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#latex #software-engineering