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Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System

lathosjp · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as the standard introduction to SILE as a modern TeX alternative, though possibly dated.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “see the author's presentation at FOSDEM 2015 - I found it really amusing”

    Amusing deep dive from SILE's author at FOSDEM 2015.

    akavel, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book”

  2. “was nice introduction, although I don't know how up to date it is”

    Nice introduction to SILE as TeX alternative.

    lahcim8, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Finl is not LaTeX”

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Topics: sile, tex, lua, typesetting, fosdem

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