Show HN: A GFM+GF-MathJax/Latex HTML formatting adventure
github.comI think this is apropos of the "Show HN" tag, as the post is explanatory and the entire codebase this little side-story use case discussed in TFA is in the repo and free to use. (I'd be pleased if you did!)
In the post, as I tried to capture in the title submitted, I outline my journey of exploration, when I became determined to make GitHub-Flavored Markdown display my text, with color, style and alignment of my choosing, which as I discovered after setting out to do so, the inability to do such a thing outside of fenced blocks with pre-defined syntax highlighting is a well-known condition, which is met with "works as intended" response because, well, GitHub doesn't want their repos looking like MySpace or Geocities or presenting security risk exposure by allowing arbitrary html/CSS styling. Sure, I should have used GitHub Pages to build a page from my Markdown using Jekyll, which is a supported way to control the styling of your own documents in your repo, but where's the fun in that?
The linked post documents the workaround I arrived at, which became an output target format that nobody has ever asked for from my ASCII line-Art diagramming tool. I thought some here might appreciate the documentation of "wasting my time so you don't have to" on a technical solution for a problem I probably just shouldn't have cared about and moved on. > Phart is exploring New Media to express itself through Math, Science, and Visual Arts! I don't understand what is going on in this project, and honestly I think you could edit the text to remove about 80% of words and communicate the same information in a more organized way - but the colorful diagrams are pretty and I was quite entertained skimming through it. It's nice to see someone enjoying creative computing, and if it takes the audience some effort to digest the mad genius (or just mad) rambling stream of consciousness, well, it's your hypermedia software novel, you can make it how you want and that's the fun and freedom of artistic expression!