Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System

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lahcim8 · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Recently I have been also thinking about TeX's internals, also because I feel the pain points you describe in at [LINK] . I have too thought about experimenting with TeX rewrites/alternatives and particularly in Rust. I don't know if you are aware, but finl has been also submitted to Lobsters ( [LINK] ). One of the comments mentions SILE ( [LINK] ). I looked into it ( [VIDEO] was nice introduction, although I don't know how up to date it is). It seems to me that SILE replaces many pain points in TeX, while being somewhat close to LuaTeX (and TeX in general), due to use of similiar components (Lua, alogorithms, hyphenation patters, libraries). It even supports "LaTeX" like input syntax, but frankly I don't think that is the part of LaTeX I would keep :). Can you share your opinion on SILE?

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akavel · 2016-04 · Recommendation

Of recent attempts at dethroning LaTeX, there's also SILE, which actually reuses some LaTeX internals. For some examples of the output (hard to find, the author seems not great at marketing), see e.g.: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] For a deeper dive, see the author's presentation at FOSDEM 2015 - I found it really amusing - from the starting line of: "I wrote a typesetting system - by mistake." [VIDEO]

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svat · 2022-11 · Reference

A couple of the author's talks are also online: • [VIDEO] [FOSDEM 2015, "Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System"] • [LINK] [GRANSHAN Conference 2015, "Global typesetting with SILE"]

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