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Sile Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to sile
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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guix
Obsolete mirror of GNU Guix. Pull requests are ignored. Go to https://codeberg.org/guix/guix instead. (by guix-mirror)
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resilient.sile
Advanced modules for the SILE typesetting system: A path for making books from front cover to back cover, invoices, and more, using lightweight markup.
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Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
I haven't used typesetting since my university days and updating my ModernCV CV, but it's also worth mentioning SILE (https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile) for non-TeX derivative engines.
I also found the very useful comparison website https://polytype.dev/ on the subject!
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Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
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Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
This is the most exciting feature of Sile to me -- since I currently rely on a slow and memory hungry Java toolchain to convert docbook to pdf with fop -- but I just tried it on two docbook documents (a book and also a short article) and it failed to convert both. Apparently the docbook support is currently very incomplete:
https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/issues/1338
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sile-typesetter/sile is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of sile is Lua.
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