Re:The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
by ttul on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:26PM
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IIRC there are DSLs that are context free and which compile down to TeX. I just can’t recall at the moment any.. it’s been years. The layout engine inside TeX is second to none. Why throw out the baby with the bath water?
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Re:The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
by choeger on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:18AM
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I never encountered a context-free typesetting language that was as powerful as TeX. I assume it would be quite a lot of rather boring work. The main interesting design question would be how to express content and its relationships in some logical way that is distinctive from the algorithmic layouting.