@bins That exact layout is going to be a nightmare in any engine. #speedata will probably come closest, but #texlatex is going to be *hard*, and neither #typst nor #sile will handle both balanced columns and floating images across columns at the same time.

The correlations between #typesetting engines to their #terminal text editors are irrefutable:

* #TeXLaTeX is #emacs.
* #SILE is #neovim.
* #Typst is #helix.
* #WeasyPrint is #nano.
* #Speedata is #microeditor

Now back to your regularly scheduled indentation.

@rk the other two options would be #SILE and #typst.

Other follow-ups groupings would also be mashups like #speedata / prince / etc. and browser tech options like #weasyprint / #pagedjs / etc.

See also https://polytype.dev for some comparisons I was/am working on.

@nobodyinperson Any thoughts to suggest for spinning up #speedata, or #patoline in a Nix shell? I think I have almost everything else of note these days running, but Speedata has a messy build with no notion of an installation (which explains why it has never been packaged for any distro) and Patoline only builds against a legacy OCAML toolchain. Since it isn't a very active player in the #typesetter space I can write off the later for now but @speedata Publisher probably deserves a fair shake.

I've recently launched an idea at https://polytype.dev — a sort of Rosetta Stone for #typesetting engines.

The goal is to build up a sample gallery that showcases both differences and similarities between the input and output of #SILE, #TeXLaTeX, #Typst, #speedata, #weasyprint, #pagedjs, #groff, #satysfi, #patoline, and potentially others.

The source code is at https://github.com/alerque/polytype and contributions are very welcome! The UI in particular could use the touch of a front-end developer!

XTS version 0.0.11 is released. Download as always at https://github.com/speedata/xts/releases

In preparation for automatic testing XTS can now create reproducible PDFs (identical checksum on each run). This makes it easier to compare a PDF file against a reference PDF.
Also add the support for muliple runs.

A new example is online at https://github.com/speedata/xts-examples/tree/main/introduction/planets which show how to create a table of contents.
#xts #speedata

"When you don't know how to make a business"

There is a #DTP software I'd like to introduce to my workflow (#speedatapublisher) that to add trivial things such as bleed areas and crop marks requires $180mo subscription.

The Industry standard, called Adobe #InDesign, full version costs instead $20mo...

How can I justify to my boss that we need to spend $1800 yearly to have bleed area and crop marks is something that I won't ever know, because I won't waste my time for such lost cause.

Congratulations #Speedata for losing hundreds of prospect customers with this smart marketing strategy... :flan_guns:

XTS news: This has been a pretty busy week. Here are the news:

* XTS version 0.0.2 is released (https://github.com/speedata/xts/releases/tag/v0.0.2)
* There is the beginning of a manual at https://doc.speedata.de/xts/
* The example repo is at https://github.com/speedata/xts-examples
* XTS is now BSD licensed!

What is #XTS? The XML typesetting system is a PDF database publishing software to create product catalogs and other high demand output. #speedata #boxesandglue

(4) Modern solutions include (besides Teχ): #SILE, #speedata publisher and #typst.
(5) I am working on my own project #typho.

Here are the slides: https://www.typho.org/assets/presentations/2023-02-07_pygraz_slides.pdf

More details follow tomorrow.

2/2

On Tuesday, I will give a talk about #DigitalTypesetting at the local #python community.

My idea is to create some first slides for digital typesetting to expand them over the course of the next months. I will also introduce various existing solutions for digital typesetting (#LaTeχ, #SILE, #speedata, #yex, #typst, …) and my own project #typho.

In case you are in #Graz, join us. I will share slides later here.
https://pygraz.org/meetups/sessions/163/

#Speedata #Publisher – a #professional database Publishing system

Project
https://github.com/speedata/publisher