Pure Java Typesetting System

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  • KeenType

    Discontinued Pure Java typesetting system

  • new-typesetting-system

    GitHub copy of the NTS/TeX source code from 2001

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  • KeenWrite

    Discontinued Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

  • > like font face, font size, horizontal and vertical element positioning and line spacing, etc.

    May I recommend ConTeXt?

    For my purposes, KeenType was only meant to provide a real-time "rough draft" of equations rendered inside of KeenWrite[0], my FOSS Markdown editor. That is, I edit in Markdown, then KeenWrite converts the inline TeX-based equations for previewing. When I'm ready to create a "finished" product, KeenWrite exports the Markdown to XHTML then feeds the XHTML, along with a theme, to ConTeXt[1]. The various themes[2] are where font faces sizes, alignment, kerning, etc. are tweaked. In this way content remains completely separated from presentation.

    [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes

  • keenwrite-themes

    Discontinued Document typesetting configurations using ConTeXt

  • > like font face, font size, horizontal and vertical element positioning and line spacing, etc.

    May I recommend ConTeXt?

    For my purposes, KeenType was only meant to provide a real-time "rough draft" of equations rendered inside of KeenWrite[0], my FOSS Markdown editor. That is, I edit in Markdown, then KeenWrite converts the inline TeX-based equations for previewing. When I'm ready to create a "finished" product, KeenWrite exports the Markdown to XHTML then feeds the XHTML, along with a theme, to ConTeXt[1]. The various themes[2] are where font faces sizes, alignment, kerning, etc. are tweaked. In this way content remains completely separated from presentation.

    [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes

  • teavm

    Compiles Java bytecode to JavaScript, WebAssembly and C

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