#speedata — Public Fediverse posts

@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.

@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!