Polytype: A Rosetta Stone for typesetting engines

by ubavic on 6/22/2024, 10:04:03 AM with 13 comments

  • by jhbadger on 6/24/2024, 9:53:02 AM

    Interesting idea, although I'm not sure of the choice of engines. I recognize LaTeX and groff, but none of the others. And conversely, engines that I would expect to be there like plain TeX, Lout, and even just Markdown (which combined with pandoc can be used to typeset documents). aren't there.

  • by isaacfrond on 6/24/2024, 12:37:40 PM

    Chrestomathy:

    1 : a selection of passages used to help learn a language

    2 : a volume of selected passages or stories of an author

  • by ks2048 on 6/24/2024, 6:34:50 PM

    Is this “typesetting” only referring to things like page layout? For glyph rendering and shaping, I thought FreeType and HarfBuzz were the most popular open source engines, which I don’t see here.

  • by jimhefferon on 6/24/2024, 2:22:33 PM

    Cool idea. Suggestion: side-by-side output.