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WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool

Tom Wildenhain3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2018-2025
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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.

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

Graphic design & typographySatire & parody#wordtex#latex#sigbovik#microsoftword#typesetting

5 comments from Hacker News

@senkora2025 · in “I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst”

There’s always the WordTex template if you want to create documents that look like LaTeX output from within Word: ▶ this video

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@UncleMeat2023 · in “C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf]”

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: ▶ this video

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@gitgud2020 · in “Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document”

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

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@bobbiechen2019 · in “Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX”

>Could you use a standard word processor to approximate LaTeX, while obtaining an arguably better experience? Introducing the WordTeX template [for Microsoft Word] . From the SIGBOVIK 2018 presentation, "WordTeX - a WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool" : ▶ this video

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@amhouse2018 · in “LyX: combine the power of LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface”

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] ▶ this video

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