Twenty LuaLaTeX Examples Recreate the Look of Vintage Scientific Papers
Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX
A GitHub repository by Foadsf offers twenty standalone LuaLaTeX and MetaPost examples that reproduce the aesthetic of old scientific papers: engraved plates, star charts, computed log tables, knots, telescopes, and more. Each file compiles independently, letting you copy, compile, and strip away effects to see what they contribute. The examples use fiziko for MetaPost figures, with some drawn directly inside LuaLaTeX via luamplib.
This is a period-inspired visual treatment, not a historically exact facsimile.
- 3eb7988a1663
Heh, I read the title and thought this was going to be about someone porting legacy publications into Latex code. Anything from Newton's gravity to Marie Curie radium.
Which would be nice - some seminal publications from not all that long ago are only available as terrible quality scans.
- userbinator
Rather Claudish(?)-sounding README (and even the examples!) aside, this definitely has that early 20th/late 19th-century aesthetic. I think 99% of it is due to the choice of font.