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I understand your motivation. The thing is, there were many attempts to reimagine TeX, and none of them succeeded. Not because there were bad ideas, far from th
by xvilka 5y ago
I understand your motivation. The thing is, there were many attempts to reimagine TeX, and none of them succeeded. Not because there were bad ideas, far from that. It's a huge project requiring a significant development team.
- tavianator 5y agoOr one (1) Donald Knuth
- guavaNinja 5y agoPlus a huge number of TeX packages have been made and used. You can't just ask people to leave all of that and learn a new language.
- dhosek 5y agoThe idea is that a LaTeX document and a finl document would look nearly identical between \begin{document} and \end{document}. As for packages, they fall into two categories: * document classes. Creating document classes is too difficult with LaTeX and a new document class with finl will be a relatively trivial thing to create, * extensions to LaTeX to remedy deficiencies. Some, like babel/polyglossia and the six million improvements on tabular would be things baked into the core format of finl. The most notable third-party ecosystem that would be translated would be the whole TikZ environment. I'm aiming to be able to allow TikZ illustrations to be cut and pasted into finl and to replicate at least the most common extensions. The other big one is the whole beamer ecosystem. The finl equivalent will keep similar if not identical syntax but will be superior in that it will be able to allow non-PDF backends for output (so, for example, one could run finl-ppt mypresentation.finl and get a PowerPoint presentation with all the capabilities that PowerPoint gives for things like animations and transitions that are difficult or impossible to achieve in a PDF-based presentation.