Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX

Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by rhabarba on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:55AM (#33450239)

troff exists.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by massysett on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:40AM (#33450779)

My needs are pretty simple - a program that makes grocery lists that I print. groff with the ms macros works very well. I used to use LaTeX but never figured out how to use it without installing gigabytes of stuff. This is my fault - surely I could have learned plain TeX, or learned how to work the TeX distribution to only install the stuff I needed. But ultimately it was just easier to get going with groff.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by AlanYx on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:11AM (#33450407)

For those who expect troff to be an ancient relic, Neatroff and Heirloom troff include modern features like microtypography. troff is still great for a lot of applications.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by NeutralForest on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:51AM (#33451886)

It doesn't have syntax highlighting IIRC

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by neutrono on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:49PM (#33457292)

You can hack it with the \m[<color>] escape in groff:

         \m[blue]int\m[] x

Of course, you would use some kind of pre-processor to make this less of a PITA, but it's not inconceivable.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by RGamma on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:03AM (#33450322)

I've used texmacs (unrelated to TeX despite the name) with good success.

Never went particularly deep into it though.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by natemcintosh on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:51AM (#33450939)

I've been using texmacs for a little over year now, and have loved it. For me, the nicest part is much simpler creation and editing of tables and aligned math. I also appreciate the image insertion; in LaTeX my images often end up not quite where I want them (I know, you can specify "here" for your images, but I'd prefer if they were just "there" to start with). Of course, depending on your use case, your mileage may vary.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by mapierce2 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:50AM (#33452893)

HTML/CSS, with KaTeX loaded to render mathematics using the same notation as (La)TeX.

https://katex.org

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by g8oz on Thursday November 03, 2022 @03:32PM (#33456201)

PrinceXML.com - free for non-commercial use. PDFs from HTML/CSS with Katex support. Produces beautiful output.

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX by claudionaoto on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:34PM (#33458857)

https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi

SATySFi (pronounced in the same way as the verb “satisfy” in English) is a new typesetting system equipped with a statically-typed, functional programming language. It consists mainly of two “layers” ― the text layer and the program layer. The former is for writing documents in LaTeX-like syntax. The latter, which has OCaml-like syntax, is for defining functions and commands. SATySFi enables you to write documents markuped with flexible commands of your own making. In addition, its informative type error reporting will be a good help to your writing.

The main problem is that a lot of the documentation is in japanese.

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