Is this just a rewrite of TeX (what Neovim is to Vim) or is the syntax different, too? There aren't any code examples on the website, and I don't really want to learn another typesetting language. I also won't be able to use it with Pandoc, which is a dealbreaker for me.
At this point, the parts of TeX that people actually use are 1) the box-and-glue model, 2) the hyphenation algorithm, and 3) the line-breaking algorithm. SILE follows TeX in each of these three areas;
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Is this just a rewrite of TeX (what Neovim is to Vim) or is the syntax different, too? There aren't any code examples on the website, and I don't really want to learn another typesetting language. I also won't be able to use it with Pandoc, which is a dealbreaker for me.
Directly to one sample:
https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/sim...
The sample directory:
https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples
10MB vs ~4GB for LaTeX ? a) how much of LaTeX functionality does SILE cover and b) why is LaTeX so heavy ?
I think that explains it nicely:
http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/#sile-versus-tex