> 1) There is a small set of recurring problems that arise with LaTeX, that > could maybe have common solutions.
Unfortunately, I feel like some of the issues that trouble me the most are out of Pollen’s reach. For example, positioning things in particular places on the page depends on TeX’s internal understanding of things (‘\textwidth’ and friends). And there’s no straightforward way to interact with information at this level but to use TeX. That said, Pollen as it is does solve other pressing issues! For example, the arbitrary restriction of 9 arguments for a macro, the lack of named arguments, and so forth 😀 > + a `pollen/latex` dialect that converts LaTeX into X-expressions? It’s possible to approximate this, and these approximations are useful. But, fun story, parsing TeX is undecidable <http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~seba/publications/sle10.pdf>. > + Though I've been reluctant to put self-contained templates into Pollen, I > also recognize that a huge number of LaTeX users just rely on those six > default templates that it's had since 1979 or whatever. So it would make > sense to make it easy to use those templates in Pollen (though maybe that's > better put into a separate add-on library, so that my philosophical purity is > preserved.** > > [** No. The real reason I've avoided putting readymade templates in Pollen is > because I don't want to attract people who really want a turnkey system like > Squarespace or WordPress.] I like this philosophical purity. It’s why I use Pollen. When I want opinions and templates, I use Scribble (which comes with the best-looking HTML in the market 😉). I suppose that, at best, Pollen could be a leaky abstraction—one would still need to understand TeX and LaTeX. I’m more interested in replacing the beast altogether, and have a PDF rendering engine interacting with Pollen directly. In other words, Quad! -- Leandro Facchinetti <m...@leafac.com> https://www.leafac.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pollenpub+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
