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| patoline | tectonic | |
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| 5 | 22 | |
| 182 | 3,750 | |
| 0.0% | 2.6% | |
| 1.8 | 9.2 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 9 days ago | |
| OCaml | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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patoline
- Typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX, is now open source
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Patoline
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Ask HN: LaTeX is great. Has anyone tried to build something better?
There is https://patoline.github.io/ but it's been in alpha / active development for years now.
I agree that TeX's errors is one of the worst things about it. Strongly suggest you track your changes in git, I found it was often easier to go back to some version that compiled and re-add the changes, rather than try and track down the missing bracket or extra backslash that broke it.
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LibreOffice Writer crashes when there's too many images. Is there any way around?
But try to consider "dirtying your hands with code", maybe LaTeX is not the appropriate tool, but something newer like SILE, Patoline or similar technology may be good for you. Yes, you already said you want something drag and drop, but this other approach.
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Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
there was a project but it seems abandoned
https://github.com/patoline/patoline
tectonic
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I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back
You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic, which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.
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bard 2.0
v2 has improved TeX engine lookup, improved PDF template look&feel, proper support for MS Windows (where it comes integrated with the Tectonic engine) and a few more new features.
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[Media] Version 0.3 of Inlyne - An interactive markdown renderer written entirely in Rust
There's https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but I think the issue with that idea is that sure, you can re-implement TeX (it's sufficiently simple) in Rust and then run LaTeX packages on top of it, but then you're back to LaTeX and all its weirdness so you haven't really gained anything compared to LaTeX itself.
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Arch for science
In terms of TeX, I would recommend taking a look at tectonic, a self-contained TeX distribution that auto-installs packages you need when you need them, and “just works” when you call the binary to compile… Because screw messing around with package managers, CTAN and XeTeX. I’ve been using it for around a year and it’s so much easier than any other TeX distribution.
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Porting Python reportlab code to Rust
For example, you can have your main application in something like Deno/Node/python that acts as a server, and then delegate the actual pdf generation to tectonic (https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) or Typst https://typst.app/blog/2023/beta-oss-launch/
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Another rewrite in rust: Pydantic
tectonic: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
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UnTeX - Parsing and formatting TeX documents with Rust - Looking for help
How does it compare with Tectonic?
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (May, 2022)
It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.
[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
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LaTex alternative/replacement written in Rust?
The only thing I've seen is https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but that's an actual re-implementation of TeX Rust.
What are some alternatives?
ktikz - KtikZ provides a nice user interface for making pictures using TikZ.
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
pandoc - Universal markup converter
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
tectonic - Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine.
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
devel - Documentations and Issues for Developers
arara
sihl - A modular functional web framework
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering