SILE VS Mathcha

I'm allergic to LaTeX ;-), but initially used SILE, which is a modern reimagining of TeX/LaTeX. It reads Markdown natively, so I could push the content in directly and style it for the printed page. However, SILE is still very early in development, and I had some major problems with baseline alignment. It turned out to be far less of a pain to do it in InDesign, even with the need to write conversion scripts. Source: almost 1 year ago

What are your thoughts on SILE (https://sile-typesetter.org/)? I think it’s the tool roughly in this space, and “write djot -> SILE convertor” is on my hobby todo list. I am 95% sure in the djot part here, but I am fairly naive when it comes to typography, and can’t really estimate the SILE part. Source: about 1 year ago

TeX/LaTeX is so addictive to use ... It's such a quirky and messy ecosystem. So organically grown over decades. Doing any complex layout is a struggle of trial and error and searching for advise, there's so many ways to do the same thing, you end up combining two dozens sometimes subtly incompatible packages, you end up gardening your own templates over time with meticulously embedded commentary to keep the... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I actually have really enjoyed SiLE[0] as a replacement. The only caveat being that it has no where near the ecosystem that LaTeX has built up over the years. I do think that it is better under the hood than LaTeX though and much easier to customize. [0]: https://sile-typesetter.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Simon Cozens spent some time writing a new typesetter called SILE:

  https://sile-typesetter.org/.

- Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

I really liked the idea of having a graphical interface in the first two possibilities, but the first one is kind of a mess, and I personally found that the second one is not handy at all. I thus searched the web to find another solution, and I went through a thread mentioning Mathcha. Source: 6 months ago

A good tool that you could use is mathcha.io, which gives you a graphical user interface for drawing technical diagrams in LaTeX (with the TikZ package). Draw what you want and copy the corresponding LaTeX code into your document. Source: 10 months ago

Mathcha.io seems to be abandoned since 2019 according to its Twitter account, and according to MalwareBytes it's become riskware. Do people have alternatives for WYSIWYG Tikz editors? I've loved it for differential and complex geometry (I made a bitchin diagram for the definition of a vector bundle), so I'm loathe to simply abandon it. Source: 12 months ago

Mathcha.io can export tikz code. I use it for most of my stuff. If you get used to it you can do this schematic in less than an hour. Source: 12 months ago

I have grown to always use mathcha.io. Imo if you're rendering really complicated stuff, you should just stick to using the actual LaTex files. Nothing beats it once you're used to it. Source: 12 months ago