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What are the advantages of this over TeX/LaTeX? I already know LaTeX quite well as will most people who are looking for a typesetting system.
by jeffreyrogers 12y ago
What are the advantages of this over TeX/LaTeX? I already know LaTeX quite well as will most people who are looking for a typesetting system.
- a-nikolaev 12y agoIt seems, Patoline's syntax resembles LaTeX syntax a lot, but it lets you embed code more easily. And you can use OCaml or some it's subset instead of TeX's \if, \loop, etc [1], which is probably a good thing. \begin{genumerate}(AlphaLower, fun s -> [tT (s^". ")]) \item First item \item Second item \end{genumerate} Which produces: a. First item b. Second item [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Plain_TeX#Conditionals http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Plain_TeX#Conditionals