You can also look at my recommended starter ( /a/471072/152148). I had been compiling quite a list of "Hello World" LaTeX know-how with MWEs (minimal working examples), replete with the precise packages needed for each MWE. The toxicity of the community is very likely directly shaped by the frustration that LaTeX causes the users (the community itself). I think it's mainly because the LaTeX community is quite toxic, and doesn't receive corrections very well. Yes, these packages basically patch problems in LaTeX. Many packages are updated constantly, even in 2018. I personally believe that LaTeX and its packages are a lot of value. LaTeX can be really concise if you're not trying to get really creative with layouts. I guess LaTeX has become to some of my work circles (especially schools) what Markdown is to me - a convenient common language to converse in. I'm a heavy user of LaTeX at school and work. You made me ponder what I want from LaTeX. gfngfn/SATySFi Like comment: Like comment: 3 likes These projects seem very much aligned with my thinking but are quite young. There's a couple of active typesetting system written in OCaml: Patoline 7 and SATySFi ("satisfy") 8. These projects are somewhat aligned with my thoughts, though not statically typed. Pollen 5 is a document preparation system written in Racket along with a typesetter called Quad 6. It was an excellent, thought-provoking idea 4. Lout was a lazily-evaluated programming language and typesetting system that has unfortunately become an unmaintained GNU project. when upgrading "macro" packages/libraries) and better editor/IDE integration (i.e. The document language ought to be a programming language - in the vain of the unmaintained Scribe/Skribe Scheme based markup language 3 - but statically typed for easy maintenance (e.g. Techtonic seems like a project with that goal - although it is intended for processing. It could certainly start life as an FFI wrapper around existing TeX/LuaTeX/XeTeX libraries. My thinking is that an improved typesetting system should be written in a fast, safe language - particularly Rust but Haskell or OCaml may more elegantly express the algorithms. It's written in Lua, which I think is a mistake but still is fast (according to the author). I went searching for something better after rewriting my CV in LaTeX. You might find the SILE typesetting system of interest 1. In all honesty though, I have no clue how difficult such a task would be, and whether the 'taking care of the unimportant stuff' needs to be reintegrated from scratch or not. markdown to provide additional functionality to a general markdown editor. I don't think it's infeasible to take some ideas from LaTeX and integrate them with e.g. A matrix, if purely typed from text, needs to be written as as opposed to \begin, but I'm positive a happy medium will be achieved. There's still a few clumsy unintuitive syntax things e.g. I will say, though, Microsoft has been doing an excellent job in making the effort to make maths easier to type in Word and OneNote. It's going to take ages and some kind of standard needs to be agreed upon. I don't disagree that LaTeX needs an overhaul, but part of the problem is that since it's been around so long you run into the same problem with effectively any code-rewrite.
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