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Re: [ANN] Skribilo 0.9.4 released
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Pierre Neidhardt |
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Re: [ANN] Skribilo 0.9.4 released |
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Thu, 03 May 2018 10:32:17 +0200 |
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This must be the computer program I've been waiting for the longest time!
(Roughly 10 years...)
After too much fighting with the idyosyncracies of LaTeX, I had been
thinking of a document processing language with a similar design:
programmable with a clean separation between the input and output
drivers. I never went down to realize the project though, so seeing it
happening now is like a dream coming true :)
(Although after further reading it seems like similar projects have been
under development since the 2000s at least).
I'll try it out soon. In the mean time, a few questions:
1. Is there any procedural graphics capability? Here I'm thinking TikZ,
Asymptote, etc. TikZ turns "programming" into a much dreaded nightmare
and while Asymptote makes it a bit more approachable, it still suffers
from a language that has more ill-designed "features" than C++.
2. What about page formatting capabilities? Can Skribilo generate, say,
a letter?
3. How is it related to other GNU projects? Is it used anywhere?
4. Skribilo's manual is available in HTML / PDF format, but not in
Info. Strange, is there a good reason for it? I like Info :)
5. This seems to be in direct competition with Racket's Scribble (which
I haven't really tested either). Is there a good reason for not merging
the two projects? What are the differences between the two?
6. I didn't know about Lout: the project page is rather empty and the
description very scarce. If I understand correctly, it's an alternative
to TeXlive as a PDF rendering backend. If so, then it's a brilliant
initiative, I find TeXlive so bloated it is hardly manageable.
7. As for Lout, I had never heard of Skribilo before. Maybe it's just
me... But I think it would be worth reaching out for a broader
audience. The vast majority of the academia has been stuck with LaTeX
for too long, I can hear the far cries of too many people begging for
some progress! :D
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Pierre Neidhardt
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