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commit 74adc339966fa0954ca31b1e29b19e076f624c7b
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 28 10:21:51 2022 +0530

    Make KaTeX link accessible with alt text

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ There were a few stumbling blocks along the way of setting up a basic "Hello Wor
 
 I set up taxonomies; reading the configuration file thoroughly enough helped. (Taxonomies are the system which allows for adding "tags" or "category" to articles.) Eventuall, I got comfortable enough with Zola that I edited the social bar to be customizable.
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-I distinctly remembered reading about [$\KaTeX$](https://katex.org/) support in the README of the theme, and loved how it looked. However, on uncommenting the flag in my `config.toml`, nothing happened. This took me some time to pin down, but it turned out that I had somehow taken `config.toml` from the original [zerm repository](https://github.com/ejmg/zerm), while using the [zerm fork](https://github.com/PabloMansanet/zerm). $\KaTeX$ support was merged in later, once the repository had already been forked. 🤦‍♂️  I got it working once I synced with the original repository.
+I distinctly remembered reading about <a href="https://katex.org" alt="KaTeX website">$\KaTeX$</a> support in the README of the theme, and loved how it looked. However, on uncommenting the flag in my `config.toml`, nothing happened. This took me some time to pin down, but it turned out that I had somehow taken `config.toml` from the original [zerm repository](https://github.com/ejmg/zerm), while using the [zerm fork](https://github.com/PabloMansanet/zerm). $\KaTeX$ support was merged in later, once the repository had already been forked. 🤦‍♂️  I got it working once I synced with the original repository.
 
 Next, diagrams. I had seen some of the (frankly gorgeous) diagrams in [Competitive Programmer's Handbook](https://cses.fi/book/index.php) and wanted something similar. Luckily, the [book's source](https://github.com/pllk/cphb/) was available over at GitHub. The book used $\LaTeX$ (a typesetting language) with the pgf/Tikz library for illustrations. ($\LaTeX$ is what $\KaTeX$ is a subset of, and despite the similar names, the former is by _far_ larger)
 

commit 1e6717bfb77d33467147adcfb6fbda6689c00634
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 28 00:14:49 2022 +0530

    correct svgfigure usage

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
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@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Sizing works now! I even got an easily-controlable size slider in the form of `w
 
 This one has a bit of a story behind it. See, the LaTeX library I was using didn't have something similar to an erase option. I drew my indices on top of existing markings, so they overlapped like so:
 
-{{ svgfigure(src="illustrations/segtree-clipping.svg", class="size-medium", position="center", caption_position="center", caption="A Misshapen Tree with Overlapping Markings") }}
+{{ svgfigure(src="illustrations/segtree-clipping.svg", class="size-medium center", caption_position="center", caption="A Misshapen Tree with Overlapping Markings") }}
 
 After searching far and wide (even looking at the [updated 1321 page Tikz manual](https://mirror.kku.ac.th/CTAN/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf)), I came to the conclusion that there was no way to "erase" an area. Sure, there for a few promising leads, but most led to hacks that would only work on specific PDF renderers, etc.
 

commit 2c3c64ed3e7b368cdcb59ac45334b9d0b641ec6e
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 27 21:43:36 2022 +0530

    Add zero-width space to this-blog
    to improve clipping situation

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
index d33e552..15f593c 100644
--- a/content/this-blog/index.md
+++ b/content/this-blog/index.md
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ I got as far as properly extracting lines, but then I had to deal with removing
 
 I gave up.
 
-Instead, I built a webserver in Python to serve file ranges and used something like `load_data(url="localhost:8000/?file=illustrations;start=5;end=10")` to get code snippets.
+Instead, I built a webserver in Python to serve file ranges and used something like `load_data​(url=​"localhost:8000/​?file=​illustrations;​start=5;​end=10")` to get code snippets.
 
 Then I dropped that because:
 - it felt _incredibly_ ugly. Just think about it. To build your website, you must:

commit 02b0d3d8c685d131d83b31ce5276ee2352892b20
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 27 15:07:38 2022 +0530

    Fix heading to sensible order in ToC

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
index dcacd0e..d33e552 100644
--- a/content/this-blog/index.md
+++ b/content/this-blog/index.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ It turned out that the [theme cuervo's blog used](https://github.com/PabloMansan
 
 After going through Zola's documentation, I forked curveo (a.k.a PabloMansanet)'s theme and got to work.
 
-### Teething Troubles
+## Teething Troubles
 <!--
 There were a few stumbling blocks along the way of setting up a basic "Hello World", such as nesting sections and getting articles to show up on my home page.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Then I dropped that because:
 
 Could I have solved this problem? Yes. Did I want to? No, not really; the solution did not seem to warrant the cost. I settled for copy-pasting relevant code in articles. I'll probably do something about that in the future once it becomes enough of a problem.
 
-#### Bonus problems:
+## Bonus problems
 - (Solved) Generating social preview images (in compliance with the [Open Graph Protocol](https://ogp.me/)) required me to also use ImageMagick and `pdflatex`, since `dvipngm` did _not_ work because of some Tikz problems.
 
 - (Unsolved) Using a custom domain. The domain I had was bought from an incredibly unknown provider with a website that looked like it was straight from the 2000s. I still don't know why even after updating my DNS records that domain doesn't redirect.
@@ -247,10 +247,10 @@ Writing this article does give me ideas for more improvements to my build proces
 - Getting a custom domain
 - Automating social media preview generation instead of having to manually adjust the coordinates for ImageMagick to make a photo from the pdf made from a TeX file.
 
-#### Retrospective
+## Retrospective
 I probably should have taken a step back from integrating LaTeX for diagrams and evaluated other tools. I only remembered recently that [PlantUML](https://plantuml.com/), [Mermaid](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and many others existed.
 
-#### Further Reading/References/Footnotes
+# Further Reading/References/Footnotes
 While I would've loved to explain a lot of these on my own, unfortunately I lack the expertise necessary to speak much on these topics.
 
 [^1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/learning/performance/static-site-generator/

commit a2e767c35014f8db22de73e55ce54cdbd778a6fd
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 27 09:28:05 2022 +0530

    Correct typo and sync for image shortcode fix

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
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--- a/content/this-blog/index.md
+++ b/content/this-blog/index.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ I distinctly remembered reading about [$\KaTeX$](https://katex.org/) support in
 
 Next, diagrams. I had seen some of the (frankly gorgeous) diagrams in [Competitive Programmer's Handbook](https://cses.fi/book/index.php) and wanted something similar. Luckily, the [book's source](https://github.com/pllk/cphb/) was available over at GitHub. The book used $\LaTeX$ (a typesetting language) with the pgf/Tikz library for illustrations. ($\LaTeX$ is what $\KaTeX$ is a subset of, and despite the similar names, the former is by _far_ larger)
 
-To my own surprise, I had [MikTex](https://miktex.org/) (a latex distributation) along with TeXworks (a latex IDE) installed on Windows. It seems that past me had at once point set all this up and never done anything with it.
+To my own surprise, I had [MikTex](https://miktex.org/) (a latex distribution) along with TeXworks (a latex IDE) installed on Windows. It seems that past me had at once point set all this up and never done anything with it.
 
 After copy-pasting a diagram into TeXworks, I was rather surprised - [it worked perfectly](illustrations/array-diagram.pdf). Which basically never happens. I quickly noticed that it was currently producing a full page pdf, which was not something I wanted, and thus all was right with world.
 

commit a6374065e43941032558f880392972132ab6f401
Author: Kartavya Vashishtha <sendtokartavya@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 27 08:35:13 2022 +0530

    this-blog editing pass

diff --git a/content/this-blog/index.md b/content/this-blog/index.md
index ae1f19c..00d391f 100644
--- a/content/this-blog/index.md
+++ b/content/this-blog/index.md
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ math = true
 I'd gotten the itch to write stuff of my own sometime last year after reading _way_ too many technical blogs for 
 "fun and profit".
 
-I'd read a few articles on [cuervo's blog](https://www.ecorax.net/), and I really liked their theme. Their website also
-included a RSS feed, which I _loved_. <small>(I use RSS with Thunderbird to keep up with blogs)</small>
+One of said blogs was [cuervo's blog](https://www.ecorax.net/), which I really liked - their theme felt easy on the eyes. Their website also included a RSS feed, which I _loved_. <small>(Since I use RSS with Thunderbird to keep up with blogs)</small>
 
-The first step was getting acquainted with the SSG (Static Site Generator) [^1] of my choice, [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/). I picked Zola for two reasons: the theme I liked was a Zola theme, and it was written in Rust. (Being written Rust was an advantage because I was reasonably proficient in Rust and could modify the codebase if push came to shove)
+The first step was getting acquainted with the SSG (Static Site Generator) [^1] of my choice, [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/). I picked Zola for two reasons: the theme I liked (cuervo's blog) was a Zola theme, and Zola was written in Rust. (Being written Rust was an advantage because I was reasonably proficient in Rust and could modify the codebase if push came to shove)
 
 <!--
 Back in ye olden days, blogs and such would be directly written in HTML/CSS. (Oh, the horror!) Thankfully, someone had the idea for using a database for storing the actual content (articles, photos, etc.) and dynamically building 
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ Back in ye olden days, blogs and such would be directly written in HTML/CSS. (Oh
 
 It turned out that the [theme cuervo's blog used](https://github.com/PabloMansanet/zerm) ("zerm") was a fork of the [actual zerm theme](https://github.com/ejmg/zerm), which in turn was a port of Radek Kozieł's [Terminal theme](https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal) for Hugo. 
 
-After going through Zola's documentation, I forked PabloMansanet (a.k.a ecorax)'s theme and got to work.
+After going through Zola's documentation, I forked curveo (a.k.a PabloMansanet)'s theme and got to work.
 
 ### Teething Troubles
 <!--
@@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ sed '3 {s/width='\''[^'\'']*'\''//;s/height='\''[^'\'']*'\''//;};' -i array-diag
 > The above snippet looks at line number 3, and substitutes the text matching the patterns
 > `width='[^']*'` and `height='[^']*'` with nothing. This sed invocation will transform `width='foo' irrelevant info='bar' height='qux'` (at line 3) to ` irrelevant info='bar' `.
 
-Sizing works now! I even got an easily-controlable size slider in the form of `width = x%`.
+Sizing works now! I even got an easily-controlable size slider in the form of `width = x%` with CSS.
 
 #### Warcrime Three
 
@@ -212,7 +211,7 @@ done
 
 #### (Cancelled) Warcrime Four
 
-Next on my list was making sure that the code I wrote in my articles was well-tested and up-to-date.
+Next on my list was making sure that the code I wrote in my articles was well-tested and up-to-date. A bonus would be linking to the actual code file whenever I displayed a part of it in an article.
 
 Zola has these things called shortcodes which can take parameters and insert HTML (for example `image (src="", caption="", ...)`) and call other special functions (such as `load_data()`, which loads in data from a file or url)
 
@@ -225,7 +224,7 @@ I gave up.
 Instead, I built a webserver in Python to serve file ranges and used something like `load_data(url="localhost:8000/?file=illustrations;start=5;end=10")` to get code snippets.
 
 Then I dropped that because:
-- it was _incredibly_ ugly. Just think about it. To build your website, you must:
+- it felt _incredibly_ ugly. Just think about it. To build your website, you must:
 	- Run a script to build LaTeX files and then several sed invocations to get the svgs working.
 	- Launch a Python server to properly cut and serve code blocks.
 	- Run the actual site generator.
@@ -244,12 +243,12 @@ Could I have solved this problem? Yes. Did I want to? No, not really; the soluti
 
 Writing this article does give me ideas for more improvements to my build process.
 - Integrating a spell-checker
-- Getting code snipping with line numbers and reference to file _in_ the codeblock itself.
+- Code snipping with line numbers and reference to the actual file _in_ the codeblock itself.
 - Getting a custom domain
-- Automating social media preview generation instead of having to manually adjust the coordinates for ImageMagick to take a photo from the pdf made from a TeX file.
+- Automating social media preview generation instead of having to manually adjust the coordinates for ImageMagick to make a photo from the pdf made from a TeX file.
 
 #### Retrospective
-I probably should have taken a step back from integrating LaTeX for diagrams and evaluated other tools. I only remember recently that [PlantUML](https://plantuml.com/), [Mermaid](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and many others existed.
+I probably should have taken a step back from integrating LaTeX for diagrams and evaluated other tools. I only remembered recently that [PlantUML](https://plantuml.com/), [Mermaid](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and many others existed.
 
 #### Further Reading/References/Footnotes
 While I would've loved to explain a lot of these on my own, unfortunately I lack the expertise necessary to speak much on these topics.