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Re:The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine by munificent on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:46PM (#22394121)
The faux em dash definitely caught my eye. The hyphenated "ory" on its own line at the end of a paragraph is another really bad look.

If these are the examples to pitch the system... it doesn't seem ready for primetime. That's OK. Every project has to start somewhere, but the README could stand to frame that a little better.

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Re:The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine by kragen on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:56PM (#22394158)
Yeah, I wouldn't want to influence the author to stop working on typesetting, but I found the arrogant boasting really annoying.
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Re:The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine by blt on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:10PM (#22394216)
yeah, LaTeX tries really hard to avoid such a short trailing line.
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