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It seems TeX/LaTeX is a major inspiration in this, though there can be seen some room for improvement for details like hyphenation, expansion/protusion and micr
by Gualdrapo 3y ago
It seems TeX/LaTeX is a major inspiration in this, though there can be seen some room for improvement for details like hyphenation, expansion/protusion and microtypography. Not sure if/how a web engine can reach to those points but still it seems this has a potential niche and market outcome, so congrats.
Though personally I wish stuff like ConTeXt was more popular and approachable - to my humble knowledge their Lua backend seems to have huge potential, I am doing my invoices with ConTeXt/Lua.
- Titou325 3y agoIt definitely is! Typesetting quality was the main reason we chose not to go down the Puppeteer/headless browser route but rather use a completely separate engine where typography is a first-class citizen. We like LaTeX, but even for advanced users laying things out can be a difficult thing. Given that documents are a frontend, we wanted to bring the same tools frontend developers already use.