SILE VS TeXworks

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SILE mentions (12)

• LaTeX and AsciiDoc

  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: 12 months ago

• Typst, a modern LaTeX alternative written in Rust, is now open source

  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

• TeXmacs “The Jolly Writer” book now available as pdf download

  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

• Ask HN: LaTeX is great. Has anyone tried to build something better?

  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

• Writing my PhD using groff

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

    https://sile-typesetter.org/.

  - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

TeXworks mentions (3)

• TexLive installer error on installation. I get a: "Use of uninitialized value $avl in patter match..." when I change anything in the GUI version of TeXLive installer

  I'm not sure if I should post here, but here was one of the forums pointed by tug.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• texlive 2018 in the year of 2021?

  The reason which made me curious in the first place was that I could not compile a document successfully which, however, was possible on my Windows machine where I have installed texlive using the online installer of tug.org. After a painful and long and painful investigation I finally installed texlive using the installer from tug.org and et-voila: it worked. Source: about 2 years ago

• LaTeX: Where else can I find or use LaTeX?

  You can find many resources here, like documentation, help, community, you need to explore it by yourself here. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Coming soon: Publishing Beautiful Books with Markdown

  For a conversion to an e-book, it is possible to take a trip through (La)TeX and TeX4ht, or use Pandoc, which is pretty good at converting from Markdown to HTML (better than between, say, HTML and LaTeX). We will cover all these aspects and more in our book, which itself will be written and typeset using the Markdown package. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to convert LaTex to e-reader friendly file like epub or mobi?

  A possibility is http://tug.org/tex4ht/. It is more advanced, and harder, than Pandoc. Source: over 2 years ago