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MetaPost + TeX rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid"
13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 6 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-02-01 · latest 2026-10-30
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…implemented procedural decorations for a recreation of Byrne's "Elements of Euclid" in LaTeX: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid (bottom of the readme)
comment by lkm0 · 2026-10-30 · in Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX -
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Elements of Euclid in LaTeXstory by marvinborner · 2025-07-01 · 0 comments
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MetaPost and ConTeXt Rendition of Byrne's Euclidstory by Grieving · 2022-07-28 · 0 comments
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…+ ConTeXt rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid" .[1] [0] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/blob/master/.tra... [1] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/tag/Cur...
comment by app4soft · 2021-06-11 · in Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf] -
…[1] https://github.com/raphink/geneve_1564/releases/download/201... [2] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/downloa...
comment by victop · 2021-03-25 · in Ask HN: What is the most beautifully typeset book you've ever encountered? -
…Archive.org, print: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628606 In TeX: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid
comment by nsajko · 2020-06-02 · in Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams -
…books of the Elements of Euclid".[1] [0] https://twitter.com/cphlmy/status/1149450536309182465 [1] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid
comment by app4soft · 2019-12-05 · in Fiziko – various things in MetaPost for a physics textbook -
…This linked post on habr.com is definitely worth reading; also see the sources on GitHub page here: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid A scan of Byrne's 1847 original here: https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksofe00byrn/page/n6…
comment by svat · 2019-05-27 · in Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX -
…in ConTeXt (arguably a bit higher quality and with some very impressive programmatic typography): https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid
comment by lambdadmitry · 2018-12-17 · in Byrne’s Euclid – A reproduction of the celebrated work from 1847 -
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Oliver Byrne's Colored “Elements of Euclid” Re-Created in TeX [pdf]story by mci · 2018-10-28 · 0 comments
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Oliver Byrne's coloured “Elements of Euclid” in TeXstory by mci · 2018-08-08 · 0 comments
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MetaPost and ConTeXt rendition of “The first six books of the Elements of Euclid”story by lambdadmitry · 2017-08-14 · 0 comments
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TeX Rendition of Oliver Byrne's “The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid”story by rev · 2017-02-01 · 0 comments