untex
Understand and manipulate TeX files with ease (by jeertmans)
tectonic
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. (by tectonic-typesetting)
| untex | tectonic | |
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| 1 | 22 | |
| 27 | 3,768 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 2.2 | 9.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Rust | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
untex
Posts with mentions or reviews of untex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
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UnTeX - Parsing and formatting TeX documents with Rust - Looking for help
Currently, UnTeX is still in beta, and only few commands are implemented. I recommend you read the README or the docs if you are interested in knowing more :-) I think the core foundations are already there.
tectonic
Posts with mentions or reviews of tectonic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.
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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?
When comparing untex and tectonic you can also consider the following projects:
opendetex - Improved version of Detex - tool for extracting plain text from TeX and LaTeX sources
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
katex-rs - Rust bindings to KaTeX
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
TeX-Match - Search through over 1000 different LaTeX symbols by sketching. A desktop version of detexify.
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
arara
rustfmt - Format Rust code
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering