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1.0.0 will be reached when, given an appropriate style sheet, SILE can perform unsupervised typesetting of an arbitrary USX file (XML-based Bible translation document) to publicati…

So, I'm really sorry about the examples. There are two issues here: first, I'm not good at coming up with compelling examples. Second, I'm not very good at keeping the examples on …

It depends on what world you operate in. For science-related work, then yes, I agree it's a dealbreaker. SILE is currently focused towards humanities publishing where not having ma…

Two clarifications: Image handling is rudimentary at present but I'm switching to different PDF engine (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166261/would-it-make-... and http…

Just to clarify - the grid layout isn't compulsory; it's an optional package. But it's a good example of a thing which is a hard problem in TeX ( http://tex.stackexchange.com/quest…

This isn't designed for people who don't know TeX, although of course they're welcome to use it. It was designed to solve particular typesetting problems (which came up primarily i…

LuaTeX gives you hooks into the TeX system to customise certain aspects of the program's behaviour. But you can't customise the core TeX algorithms. Because the whole of SILE is wr…

It doesn't, yet; TeX is very good at that, so if that's a need you have, stick with TeX. I'm not trying to corner the whole typesetting market! However, it shouldn't be difficult (…