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SILE, a typesetting system inspired by TeX, reaches 0.9.4
- hsdkfsdkfjh 10y ago10MB vs ~4GB for LaTeX ? a) how much of LaTeX functionality does SILE cover and b) why is LaTeX so heavy ?
- JohnDoe365 10y agoI think that explains it nicely: http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/#sile-versus-tex http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/#sile-versus-tex > At this point, the parts of TeX that people actually use are 1) the box-and-glue model, 2) the hyphenation algorithm, and 3) the line-breaking algorithm. SILE follows TeX in each of these three areas;
- nerdponx 10y agoIs this just a rewrite of TeX (what Neovim is to Vim) or is the syntax different, too? There aren't any code examples on the website, and I don't really want to learn another typesetting language. I also won't be able to use it with Pandoc, which is a dealbreaker for me.
- JohnDoe365 10y agoDirectly to one sample: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/simple.sil https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/sim... The sample directory: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples