pkgwilliams

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   by pkgwilliams 9y ago

   TeX used to have numerous unique features: fairly good fonts; automatic hyphenation, which makes it feasible to lay out text with full justification; support for non-English Latin characters, etc. The rest of the world has caught up with th
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   by pkgwilliams 9y ago

   The C/C++ code add up to about 120,000 lines. Yes, it is massive and complex. Fortunately, the core engine is essentially self-contained. Almost all of the things that make the TeX frustrating come from the UX, or the difficulty of add
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   by pkgwilliams 9y ago

   Right. The hope is that the easier development process will make it easier to add fancy features like microtypography ... but for me the real prize is HTML output that doesn't suck, so that's going to be the focus of my work.
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   by pkgwilliams 9y ago

   I can't speak for latexmk, but Tectonic has, if I may say so myself, some quite sophisticated logic for managing reruns and figuring out which intermediate files can't be written to disk. That being said, I wouldn't say that
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   by pkgwilliams 9y ago

   XeTeX accomplishes PDF output by piping through xdvipdfmx in the background, so it's the same process.