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The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 14 comments · first 2014-10-01 · latest 2026-06-13

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  1. …since my university days and updating my ModernCV CV, but it's also worth mentioning SILE ( https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile ) for modern typesetting with minimal cruft. I also found the very useful comparison website…
    comment by BoingBoomTschak · 2026-06-13 · in Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
  2. https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
    comment by seanclayton · 2023-01-10 · in Skribilo: Document Programming Framework
  3. …and it failed to convert both. Apparently the docbook support is currently very incomplete: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/issues/1338
    comment by cristoperb · 2022-11-03 · in Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
  4. Sile appears to still be under active development: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
    comment by peteretep · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust
  5. …an issue with the show-off document (not the manual), and it led to an interesting discussion: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/issues/623
    comment by haberman · 2020-02-23 · in The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
  6. There are several tickets related to math handling. See https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/pull/578 and other tickets referenced there.
    comment by paulclinger · 2020-02-22 · in The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
  7. The test example looks alright: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/blob/master/examples... The kerning doesn't look great, but that's the fonts (DejaVu Sans + Libertine AFAICT).
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2020-02-22 · in The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
  8. …( http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano.20191230.pdf is full of egregious typographical sins), but https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/commit/e72aafd58f855... (Liddell & Scott, I would have thought? Although it has no title page, table…
    comment by kragen · 2020-02-22 · in The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
  9. According to the issue someone opened ( https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/issues/483 ), it's available at: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/558d35d45e1fee89860...
    comment by BoppreH · 2017-09-01 · in Sile – Simon's Improved Layout Engine
  10. There is also SILE ( https://github.com/simoncozens/sile ), which has been in development since 2012 and addresses these points in the docs: SILE is similar to TeX—from which it borrows some concepts and even syntax and algorithms—but the…
    comment by paulclinger · 2017-02-18 · in Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system (2012)
  11. Directly to one sample: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/sim... The sample directory: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples
    comment by JohnDoe365 · 2016-09-02 · in SILE, a typesetting system inspired by TeX, reaches 0.9.4
  12. …For some examples of the output (hard to find, the author seems not great at marketing), see e.g.: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/ara... https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/art...…
    comment by akavel · 2016-04-11 · in Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book
  13. …so everyone can contribute! [0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simoncozens/sile/master/do... [1] https://github.com/simoncozens/sile PS. Because the author writes SILE, not sile or Sile; is SILE an acronym?
    comment by juriansluiman · 2014-10-01 · in Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
  14. https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples
    comment by elpres · 2014-10-01 · in Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign