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| tectonic | SATySFi | |
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| 22 | 2 | |
| 3,760 | 1,153 | |
| 2.8% | - | |
| 9.1 | 6.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| C | OCaml | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
SATySFi
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Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi
SATySFi (pronounced in the same way as the verb “satisfy” in English) is a new typesetting system equipped with a statically-typed, functional programming language. It consists mainly of two “layers” ― the text layer and the program layer. The former is for writing documents in LaTeX-like syntax. The latter, which has OCaml-like syntax, is for defining functions and commands. SATySFi enables you to write documents markuped with flexible commands of your own making. In addition, its informative type error reporting will be a good help to your writing.
The main problem is that a lot of the documentation is in japanese.
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Finl Is Not LaTeX
There is also SATySFi[1] (another typesetting system in Ocaml), it is active but mainly in japanese.
[1] https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi
What are some alternatives?
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
LjTools - LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode parser, viewer, assembler and test VM. Lua 5.1 parser, IDE and debugger.
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
mlatu - A declarative concatenative programming language
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
axiom - Axiom is a free, open source computer algebra system
arara
finl - finl is not LaTeX
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
tectonic - Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine.