Matthew Butterick may be able to jump in here and answer better than I can 
but you might want to look at Pollen https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ and 
language that he built on top of Scribble for publishing both on the webs 
and in print

I am not sure about the speed since Pollen relies on Scribble but I do know 
that some large projects have been created with Pollen


On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 5:38:22 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of trying Scribble again now that I have a new computer. 
> I found it unacceptably slow years ago when I tried it on a 80,000 word 
> novel. 
> I now, however, have a modern machine and it may be fast enough. 
>
> I have a few questions before I convert *everything* I'm doing to 
> scribble.   
> Each of these questions are relevant to a particular planned use.  The 
> more of 
> them have positive answers, the more projects I'll be able to 
> scribblify. 
>
> (1) How does scribble handle mathematical notation?  Presumably there's a 
> hack 
> for when I'm generating TeX, but is there anything reasonable when 
> generating 
> HTML?  Mathjax is somewhat tolerable, but mathML would be nice. 
>
> (2) How can I produce category-theoretical diagrams, such as the one on 
> top of 
> page 29 in section 3.7 in the pdf file 
> https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/GentleIntro.pdf 
> Oh yes, category theorists also use different shapes of arrow 
> heads and tails just to challenge us computer people. 
>
> (3) Are there practical ways of including images whose source code might 
> be 
> jpegs ot pngs? 
>
> (4) How can I include other scribble files into a main scribble file 
> *without* 
> making it a separate section?  The tutorial 
> https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/getting-started.html 
> mentions include-section, but I'm looking for something like just C's 
> #include. 
>
> (5) How can I make text conditional on the presence or absence of a 
> command-line parameter of the value of a global variable? 
>
> (6) How do I achieve precise, line-by-line control of indentation for 
> poetry? 
>
> -- hendrik 
>
>
>

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