Re: [pollen] invitations for thoughts about the Pollen / LaTeX nexus

I’m going out on a limb here, (because I don’t really much about how LaTeX works), but I think the fundamental problem is that both Pollen and HTML are fundamentally semantic: there is some *meaning *to the tags and how they are structured and nested in a document. How things should then be

Re: [pollen] invitations for thoughts about the Pollen / LaTeX nexus

> 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

Re: [pollen] invitations for thoughts about the Pollen / LaTeX nexus

Converting between LaTeX and X-expressions sounds like a good step forward. As a meta-point though, In my personal experience, X-as-a-LaTeX-front-end breaks down really easily when trying to do something non-trivial. For example, this bug[1] in pandoc has been open for a while and on the face of

Re: [pollen] Seeking Advice re: Pollen

My two cents. I do something similar to Matthew: ‘.rkt’ in DrRacket and ‘.html.pm’ somewhere else (Atom with the language-pollen package). -- Leandro Facchinetti https://www.leafac.com -- You received this message because you are

[pollen] invitations for thoughts about the Pollen / LaTeX nexus

I know that more than a few Pollen users (Pollenizers?) use it as a front end to LaTeX. I don't use LaTeX in any deep way so I've not really considered the Pollen–LaTeX interaction deeply. OTOH it seems like: 1) There is a small set of recurring problems that arise with LaTeX, that could

[pollen] Re: Seeking Advice re: Pollen

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 9:55 AM, George Cox wrote: > > Hi, I've stumbled across your "book-is-the-program" software Pollen and feel > it is a solution to something I've wanted for years. One quick question on > practical implementation: Do you 'write' inside DrRacket, use a