Probably the false equivalence TeX = LaTeX which is common to see in many forums and sites on the web: TeX is said not to be able to do X just because LaTeX can't. It's upsetting. groff looks interesting, tho. Jairo El dom., 3 de ene. de 2021 12:20 p. m., Andres Conrado Montoya < andresconrado@gmail.com> escribió:

Hi Denis.

SILE seems interesting, aslo Patoline. However, I think both of these are very immature, and I feel somewhat puzzled by the authors of SILE when they say that you can't do grid typesetting on TeX without horrible hacks, blatantly ignoring ConTeXt's achievements on the matter.

If you want to check an alternative typesetting system, I would tell you to not look forward but backwards: groff/troff are alive and well, are very mature, and you can find a lot of documentation and tutorials, even a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/groff/. I would recommend trying the MOM macros for groff: http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html

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