SILE typesetter and other projects
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Hi I just came across the SILE typesetter (https://sile-typesetter.org), which looks quite interesting and somehow similar to ConTeXt in some ways (e.g. lua), apart from the fact that it does not use TeX at all. ;-) Another project seems to be Patoline. Just out of curiosity: Has anyone some experience with these tools? Best Denis
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Am Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 10:17:18AM +0000 schrieb denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch:
Hi I just came across the SILE typesetter (https://sile-typesetter.org), which looks quite interesting and somehow similar to ConTeXt in some ways (e.g. lua), apart from the fact that it does not use TeX at all. ;-) Another project seems to be Patoline. Just out of curiosity: Has anyone some experience with these tools? Best Denis
Hello Denis, thank you for this interesting link "SILE"! Rudolf
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Also thank you! Patoline is partly LaTeX based, Speedata Publisher uses LuaTeX, and I know of troff and XSL/FO. I’d be interested to hear about experiences with other code based typesetting engines (besides ConTeXt and LaTeX), since I used LinoSetting and 3B2 in earlier days. A healthy and happy new year! Hraban
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Im Auftrag von Henning Hraban Ramm Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Januar 2021 14:45 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] SILE typesetter and other projects Also thank you!
Patoline is partly LaTeX based, Speedata Publisher uses LuaTeX, and I know of troff and XSL/FO.
The interesting thing here is that Patoline and SILE use some TeX-like syntax, but the underlying engine is not based on TeX at all. With Speeddata Publisher it's the opposite... Denis
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denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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Rudolf Bahr