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  • patoline

    Patoline typesetting system

    there was a project but it seems abandoned

    https://github.com/patoline/patoline

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    For all ye complaining about LaTeX being hard to use: use pandoc. Pandoc can convert your standard markdown/asciidoc file to many different formats. And, you can embed LaTeX inside, giving you both flexibility and ease of use.

    https://pandoc.org

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • tectonic

    Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine. (by crlf0710)

  • devel

    Documentations and Issues for Developers (by texmacs)

    Problem with TeXmacs that they stuck with the old technology too - they use[1] ancient Guile and that prevents them to use JIT and in turn prevents[2] distributions to update Guile itself.

    [1] https://github.com/texmacs/devel/issues/9

    [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828124

  • ktikz

    KtikZ provides a nice user interface for making pictures using TikZ.

    Having something like ktikz (or qtikz) helps:

    https://github.com/fhackenberger/ktikz

    However, it is not quite as helpful as latexdraw was for pstricks.

    That said, I am not sure how much of that difficulty is due to tools lacking and how much is due to "describe vector graphics as code" being a hard problem.

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