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chenshuo/typeset
A Chinese-language LaTeX guide for typesetting technical books, written by Shuo Chen (author of Muduo). It covers layout, style, tools, and the typography decisions that go into producing a professional-looking Chinese technical book with LaTeX.
The devcontainer setup is genuinely useful — Docker with TexLive 2022 and the required fonts means you can build the PDF on any platform without fighting font installation. The linebreak subdirectory includes Python implementations of the Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm, which is a nice standalone artifact worth reading. The diagrams are generated source (MetaPost .mp files), not just committed PNGs, so they're maintainable. Last pushed July 2026, so it's still being touched.
The content is entirely in Chinese, which limits the audience to Mandarin readers despite the universal subject matter. The PDF download link points to Google Code, which has been dead since 2016 — the committed typeset.pdf is the only way to get it. GitHub's language detection calls this a Jupyter Notebook repo because of one tikz-notes.ipynb file, which is misleading; it's a LaTeX project. No automated CI to verify the PDF still builds.