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This booklet showcases the advancements made in enhancing SILE’s math engine up to version 0.15.7+, along with a critical assessment of its current capabilities and the challenges …

True. Edit : I initially said none of the upstream maintainers call it a rewrite, but I was wrong because the original author did in fact use that turn of phrase on several occasio…

SILE can also read XML or Markdown. I use it for publishing books from Markdown via Pandoc (there are several paths from Markdown→SILE). And for the record the native SIL syntax re…

Actually it just takes XML as an input format, but depending on your XML you need to provide a class that defines how to typeset each tag. For Docbook SILE has an example class wit…

On a scale of LaTeX=0 (absolutely inscrutable) to Rust=10 (holds your hand through the fix) I would say SILE is about a 5. Caveat, I speak as one of the authors. It helpfully trace…

Yes it comes with its own context-free syntax that (despite some surface resemblance to TeX) is quite easy to parse. It can also ingest XML and some other formats.

The whole point is you shouldn't have to manually balance columns in a spread. Obviously a round trip from source to output to fiddle with balancing every spread would be tedious. …

It is related to bzip2 in the sense of using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.

GPU's are good at massively parallel tasks. Compression is, almost by definition, not a parallel problem. If you want speed you can break it up into chunks and if you are optimizin…

Do you think I am unfit to moderate the specific site and community I was appointed (and later elected) to moderate? Does any of my history indicate that I did a bad job of that? H…

Thanks, I hope I didn't ruin it just now with all the copy-editing ;-)

I have made a substantial rewrite to my post, including adding some context to explain why I used that poem.

> we don't really see religion as fundamental to personhood In saying this, you are doing exactly the thing that I've been called a bigot for. You've excluded me from "we" because …

Salty eh? Okay. I explicitly noted I wasn't being repressed, but thanks for thinking about me. The way volunteers have been treated is not good, and the rules the company is making…

Anybody can make one. You can make one on your own computer, give the result to your friends, tell them to connect through you as a proxy, and intercept everything. The tricky part…

Yes, having a root CA certificate like this installed in a client allows the certificate issuer (so in this case KZ government and anything they authorize ISPs to do) to impersonat…