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 going …

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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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Basic Documents Great a file called name.ms, with the following content: .TL Groff-Time .AU Ghost .NH How to Format Groff Documents. .PP Groff needs two new lines to show a new paragraph. Then make a pdf from the document with: groff -ems name.ms -Tpdf > name.pdf The commands must be placed at the start of a line. The …

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