THE VIDEO SHELF · typesetting systems
Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
The SILE author's FOSDEM 2015 talk introducing SILE, a TeX-inspired typesetting system with frame-based layout, Unicode, OpenType and a Lua-based extensible design.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as the standard introduction to SILE as a modern TeX alternative, though possibly dated.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- lathosjp
- Topic
- typesetting systems
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Of recent attempts at dethroning LaTeX, there's also SILE, which actually reuses some LaTeX internals. For some examples of the output (hard to find, the author seems not great at marketing), see e.g.: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] For a deeper dive, see the …
akavel on Hacker News · 2016-04
In Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” BookRecently I have been also thinking about TeX's internals, also because I feel the pain points you describe in at [LINK] . I have too thought about experimenting with TeX rewrites/alternatives and particularly in Rust. I don't know if you are aware, but finl has …
lahcim8 on Hacker News · 2021-05
In Finl is not LaTeX
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.