Hey everyone! Thread author here. Happy to see so many people taking an interest in beautiful scientific communication! If anyone has other examples of beautiful typography or graphing/figures throughout history, I'd love to see them! I've been replying to the original thread on twitter with some favorites: twitter.com/iraphas13/status/1262489387…...

> the single most cost effective way to speed up math and physics research by a philanthropist would be taking a few million dollars and hiring a team of developers to bring LaTeX into the 21st century This might be a niche opinion, but I think Rmarkdown & Jupyter get us a non-negligible portion of the way there. You can use LaTeX chunks when you need equations, markdown syntax when you need formatting (IIRC this is a pain with LaTeX), and executed code chunks to (e.g.) create and insert a graph. (One advantage of Rmarkdown is that you can have as many languages in a single document as knitr can handle, each its own chunk [0]). Neither is all the way there yet, but, as Yihui Xie puts it [1]: > I have a dream that one day all students and researchers will forget what "formatting a paper" even means. I have a dream that one day journals and grad schools no longer have style guides. I have a dream that one day no missing $ is inserted, and \hbox is never overfull. [0]: bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/language-e… [1] twitter.com/xieyihui/status/10228731795…

This beautiful booklet my Tai-Danae Bradley also contains hand-drawn diagrams: arxiv.org/pdf/1809.05923.pdf It is set using the Tufte LaTeX template: twitter.com/math3ma/status/104256952205… overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte