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Mint Is Not TeX

• deleted 10mo ago
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• smartmic 10mo ago
  With all the @ symbols, it reminds me a lot of Lout. Unfortunately, Lout never really took off, but I have fond memories of it. I liked it more than LaTeX, too. [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lout https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lout
  • ubavic 10mo ago
    That is something I accidentally discovered. TexInfo also uses @.
    • netdoll 10mo ago
      Texinfo ultimately gets the @ convention from Brian Reid's Scribe[1], as developed at Carnegie Mellon during the late 70s and commercialized by Unilogic[2,3] in the 80s. Coincidentally, there was a close derivative of Scribe called Mint[4], also developed at Carnegie Mellon in the early 80s for the PERQ (an early personal workstation competing in the category of things like the Sun-1 or Lisp Machines). [1] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/scribe/Scribe_Introductory_Users_Manual_Jul78.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/scribe/Scribe_Introductory_Use... [2] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Document_Production_System_User_Manual_198506.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Document_Productio... [3] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Pocket_Reference.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Pocket_Reference.p... [4] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/spice/Users_Manual_for_Mint_-_The_Spice_Document_Preparation_System_Apr83.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/spice/Users_Manual_for_Mint...
  • zem 10mo ago
    same, I used to use it to add PDF generation to my small projects because it was really easy to synthesise and output lout
• qwertfisch 10mo ago
  What about Typst? Looks to me as a valid TeX successor with a streamlined syntax and much better programming abilities without the limitations of 1977/1982. Typst is on my list, I wanted to have a look at this year, but unfortunately no time and no need. Except for one letter every one or two years I did not use LaTeX since my diploma thesis.