Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
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Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
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Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#2Even if there aren't pre-made bibliography styles, is there a bibliography system at all, comparable to something like BibTeX?
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#3The equation builder looks downright painful to use.
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#4Kingston has a successor language, called Nonpareil, which seems to have been in development for quite some time: http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~jeff/nonpareil.
I love (La)TeX, but I'd also love to see viable alternatives in place. However, I've never heard a success story (for example, "I wrote a book in it and it was pleasant"—or even "… a paper … painless"!). In fact, this is the first story I've heard of anyone (other than Kingston & co. himself) even seriously trying it.
Is there a Lout / Nonpareil showcase out there somewhere?
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#5The equation builder looks downright painful to use.
yeah, i find lout pretty pleasant for non-scientific stuff, but when it comes to a bunch of equations and references you can't beat latex.
one thing the blog post didn't mention is that it is really easy to machine-generate lout (indeed, that was one of its design goals), so it provides a good option to quickly add ps and pdf output to a project.
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#6In the world of "here's a preprocessor before LaTeX", pandoc tends to stand out as you can do Markdown or similar with inline LaTeX or HTML: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#7I keep revisiting Lout every couple of years, and they keep not supporting UTF-8, which makes it unusable or me. It's a shame, because it looks really nice.
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#8Semi-unrelated: Does anyone recommend a good LaTeX tutorial/book?
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#9I personally believe ConTeXt has more potential over this.
Re: Lout: An alternative to LaTeX?
#10Semi-unrelated: Does anyone recommend a good LaTeX tutorial/book?
One of my professors has a number of video tutorials which can be found here: http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/12-videos-fo...