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I am still looking for a text markup system that gives me good PDFs with DTP-grade text setting and and is plain-text, so I can work with standard version contr
by DocTomoe 4y ago
I am still looking for a text markup system that gives me good PDFs with DTP-grade text setting and and is plain-text, so I can work with standard version control programs. Right now, only TeX/LaTeX comes close. AsciiDoctor is not doing citations well, Markdown is basically a mess which differs in implementation, also footnotes and citations.
Do you have something better?
- chaoxu 4y agoHow is Quarto? It uses Pandoc Markdown.
- elashri 4y agoThere was a discussion about that last year [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042831
- hanche 4y agoI think (though I can’t find a reference) that Knuth hoped that some of the algorithms developed for TeX, such as the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms, would catch on and be used by other, non-TeX typesetting software. If that has ever happened, I a unaware of any examples. That’s a pity.
- gglitch 4y agoI don’t have an opinion about whether they’re better or worse, but have you tried groff or heirloom troff?