Sile's a typesetting program which makes nifty pdfs. It's been going great for me, so I thought I'd share the journey so far.

The Good

• It's based on lua, which is super-simple. You don't need to know any lua to use it, but if you want to poke about, it's easier enough for a non programmer to get an idea of what's …

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I love LaTeX because it can do things nothing else can. I have to use it, because it can do things nothing else can.

But it has some deep problems.

Packages

I think the biggest root of problems is having packages, rather than just having people submit a pull request on a central repository and add whatever feature …

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