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I'm not criticizing the power of TeX in terms of typesetting, I'm only referring to the _language_ here. (And you are aboslutely right, Org and other markup la
by Ambrevar 8y ago
I'm not criticizing the power of TeX in terms of typesetting, I'm only referring to the _language_ here. (And you are aboslutely right, Org and other markup languages are not competing with TeX.)
Imaging the capabilities of TeX with a good programming language.
I don't find WEB beautiful. In my opinion, literate programming (at least in this case) is a pretext to hide a terrible, unexpressive programming language.
As you're saying, Emacs had the good taste to use a Lisp back in those days, so it really is a pity that TeX didn't.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoWell, I agree a Lisp or at least more Lispy interface with TeX would be much preferable. But I am dubious how anything comparable to TeX and the TeX-ecosystem would be developed at this point.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoAdditional: I did come across https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-typesetting https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-typesetting , though its homepage seems to have disappeared.
- Ambrevar 8y agoNice! Thanks for sharing!
- Ambrevar 8y agoThis would be extremely demanding a project indeed, which is probably one no such thing has really taken off in many decades.