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Isn’t LaTeX the most popular way of using TeX? Why is it bad to compare that to alternatives? It’s like writing an article about Python and someone comments ab
by echoangle 2y ago
Isn’t LaTeX the most popular way of using TeX? Why is it bad to compare that to alternatives?
It’s like writing an article about Python and someone comments about speed differences between Cpython and Julia. Sure, Cpython isn’t Python, but isn’t that still valid and interesting?
- iso8859-1 2y agoThe amount of non-LaTeX TeX users is larger than the CPython user fraction. If TeX gets fixed in the way OP is dreaming about (but doesn't actually detail), it probably wouldn't be compatible with LaTeX. Just like many styles aren't compatible with ConTeXt.
- echoangle 2y ago> The amount of non-LaTeX TeX users is larger than the CPython user fraction. No way, I found no good statistic about it but I would be surprised if Cpython was under 80% of user share among python implementations. The comments don’t have to be exactly what the article is talking about, it was just mentioning another direction typesetting could evolve. The article is about improving TeX, and someone made a comment about typst, which claims to be a LaTeX successor. Do you not see how that is relevant to the article?