Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System

Of recent attempts at dethroning LaTeX, there's also SILE, which actually reuses some LaTeX internals. For some examples of the output (hard to find, the author seems not great at marketing), see e.g.: link link link link link link For a deeper dive, see the author's presentation at FOSDEM 2015 - I found it really amusing - from the starting line of: "I wrote a typesetting system - by mistake." link to this video

…also thinking about TeX's internals, also because I feel the pain points you describe in at link . I have too thought about experimenting with TeX rewrites/alternatives and particularly in Rust. I don't know if you are aware, but finl has been also submitted to Lobsters ( link ). One of the comments mentions SILE ( link ). I looked into it ( link to this video was nice introduction, although I don't know how up to date it is). It seems to me that SILE replaces many pain points in TeX, while being somewhat close to LuaTeX (and TeX in general), due to use of similiar components (Lua, alogorithms, hyphenation patters, libraries). It even supports "LaTeX" like input syntax, but frankly I don't think…

Yes, it made me recall this, though I first saw it in FOSDEM '15 talks 1. I thought it'd be nice to see what people think about this as I'm in the looks for a TeX alternative. 1 link to this video

…link ), and, additionally, hooks are added: callbacks that can be written in Lua, and which have access to the internal data structures. (By the way, SILE is a separate typesetting system (unrelated to TeX) that is actually written in Lua, and re-implements some of the TeX algorithms in Lua, I think. You can see this talk by its author about it: link to this video )…

A couple of the author's talks are also online: • link to this video FOSDEM 2015, "Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System" • link GRANSHAN Conference 2015, "Global typesetting with SILE"