LaTeX3 versus LuaTeX: which is the future? Statements by LaTeX3 team members.

Re:LaTeX3 versus LuaTeX: which is the future? Statements by ... by w1ntermute on Sunday February 26, 2012 @06:37PM (#3637171)

Looking at the compile script for my CV, I'm currently using latex, bibtex, and xelatex, along with sed to work around some nasty bibliography implementation issues.

LaTeX really needs to be just revamped whole. I haven't been following the development of LuaTeX or LaTeX3, but I hope that's what they both do. The syntax needs to be simplified, concerns that no longer exist thanks to improved hardware (such as super-optimized algorithms for hyphenation) need to be discarded, and all of the popular 3rd party packages need to be integrated into a single, cohesive piece of software.

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Re:LaTeX3 versus LuaTeX: which is the future? Statements by ... by ssp on Sunday February 26, 2012 @08:56PM (#3637474)

What are the problems with Liang's algorithm?

On a modern computer you could easily store the entire dictionary, but it's not clear that that's actually an improvement since it wouldn't be as good at dealing with unknown words.

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Re:LaTeX3 versus LuaTeX: which is the future? Statements by ... by sciurus on Sunday February 26, 2012 @09:47PM (#3637585)

Have you looked at ConTeXt?

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt

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