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[0]: https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-94...
[1]: https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews.pdf#i...
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Latex is not Tex.
Neither is texlive. Texlive and LaTeX is what this thread and the comment you replied to are about.
Not LaTeX.
You'd of course need to read the documentation on what TeX and LaTeX are to understand this. Most people would rather write a new system.
ConTeXt often goes unmentioned in TeX threads. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ It's a monolithic kernel with a relatively sane collection of "setup" macros that, by and large, can accomplish much of what LaTeX and its packages can do. If you're curious about how to build TeX from scratch, have a look at my TeX.SE answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/576314/2148 I'd imagine making a FOSS port in Rust that has non-c…
> ConTeXt often goes unmentioned in TeX threads. > It's a monolithic kernel with a relatively sane collection of "setup" macros that, by and large, can accomplish much of what LaTeX and its packages can do. I don't know what constitutes "sane", but I literally just downloaded and installed it right now because you mentioned it, and it choked on a trivial hello world: $ mtxrunjit --script context doc.tex ... > tex err…
Both use TeX as their layout engine. Both are different type of markup languages that live on top of TeX.
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Neither is texlive. Texlive and LaTeX is what this thread and the comment you replied to are about.
Typst is a replacement for TeX. Not LaTeX. You'd of course need to read the documentation on what TeX and LaTeX are to understand this. Most people would rather write a new system.
Cool. I've moved on to typst and hope to never touch latex again in my lifetime...
Cool. I've moved on to typst and hope to never touch latex again in my lifetime...
I recently had good luck writing a paper in org-mode. The .tex export has been around forever but I never really played with it - unlike other Emacs users, I don't actually use org-mode that much. But in the end, it worked surprisingly well. Mind you, I didn't have anything too fancy in the paper (no figures, minipages, tikz, etc...), so that made the task very easy. But it was a good workflow: - Write org-mode text…
If you're stuck on something LaTeX related, remember there's the latest edition to The LaTex Companion. It even has an appendix explaining the (in)famously cryptic LaTeX/TeX error messages:
https://latex-project.org/help/books/
There's also, among other resources, the great LaTeX Font Catalogue: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/
Enjoy the new release!
I'm one of the developers working on TeX Live; I'll try answer any questions in the replies.
I'm one of the developers working on TeX Live; I'll try answer any questions in the replies.
What's the most exciting thing going on in TeX right now?
- ar5iv [3] is somewhat outside the TeX world, but I find it pretty interesting since it's able to successfully convert most articles to HTML. Usually conversion tools have either required perfect markup or manual fixes, but ar5iv is completely automatic, and it even works with the horrible programming practices that most document authors use.
- I'm personally a big fan of ConTeXt [4], a lesser-known TeX format. ConTeXt itself isn't new, but it tends to gain new features quicker than the other formats; some recent new features include improved math typesetting [5] and improved paragraph breaking [6] [7].
- The LaTeX Team just published "latex-cmds" [8] a few weeks ago, which is a handy reference to all the recently-introduced macros (and some older ones too).
[0]: https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/tagging-status/
[1]: https://pdfa.org/accessible-math-in-pdf-finally/
[2]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-2/tb143fischer-tagging25.pdf
[3]: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/
[4]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
[5]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb43-2/tb134hagen-math.pdf
[6]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142hagen-paragraphs.pdf
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I recently had good luck writing a paper in org-mode. The .tex export has been around forever but I never really played with it - unlike other Emacs users, I don't actually use org-mode that much. But in the end, it worked surprisingly well. Mind you, I didn't have anything too fancy in the paper (no figures, minipages, tikz, etc...), so that made the task very easy. But it was a good workflow: - Write org-mode text…
With typst its fast enough to update the pdf/png/svg preview while you are typing, instead of waiting 0.x seconds when hitting save :)