RinohType
Dev tools
document typesetting
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 19 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score -0.28.
Idea: 2 for, 8 againstDesign: 0 for, 6 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Ambitious, promising project worth supporting
From 4 comments
Great project! Congratulations! I hope you will see this through and make it into a usable typesetting solution in real-world production environments. Likely a clean, general…
rhythmvs on HNVery nice work and a worthwhile project!
tony_landis on HNThis looks very promising! Definitely going to give it a test run. Thanks for sharing.
joshwd on HNGreat initiative, great work! Please keep this project alive. I will be looking forward for your progress :)
Rippalka on HN
Objections
Not a real LaTeX replacement: lacks math formulae, Knuth-Plass line breaking and LaTeX compatibility
From 2 comments
So, the situations in which I would use LaTeX rather than something cruder but friendlier are these: (1) I am typesetting something with nontrivial mathematical formulae in it.…
gjm11 on HNSo, as I see it, it is again another one on the list of the half-backed competitors to DocBook, rather than a LaTex alternative.
gizmogwai on HN
Slow rendering, about 0.8 seconds per page
From 2 comments
> One aspect that I’m not so enthusiastic about is RinohType’s performance. On my modest Celeron T3000 1.8 GHz laptop, the average rendering time for a page in the RFIC example…
JohnDoe365 on HNSo, the situations in which I would use LaTeX rather than something cruder but friendlier are these: (1) I am typesetting something with nontrivial mathematical formulae in it.…
gjm11 on HN
Title overstated the project
From 1 comment
Well, I think we all expected a "modern LaTeX" based on the title, not something that's much closer to a PDF producer than a LaTeX equivalent. The title is the issue.
iXce on HN
Python 3 only excludes Python 2 users
From 1 comment
Since I'm working right now on a report generator using LaTeX, I was all excited until I hit this: "Because of the Unicode requirement, I opted to skip Python 2 and go with…
Demiurge on HN
Requests
Markdown input support
From 1 comment
This looks great - hopefully wouldn't be too hard to implement Markdown as well. I really want to be writing my academic papers in Markdown or some other simple markup (my papers…
houshuang on HN
Knuth-Plass line breaking
From 1 comment
Ah nice! I considered something like this when writing my honours project, but ultimately moved on to other things. I really hope you see this through - but I'd recommend…
maaarghk on HN
Questions
Why not Lout instead?
From 1 comment
i would have been more interested in seeing why he felt lout was not an acceptable alternative
zem on HN
Alternatives named
LaTeX
From 1 comment
So, the situations in which I would use LaTeX rather than something cruder but friendlier are these: (1) I am typesetting something with nontrivial mathematical formulae in it.…
gjm11 on HN
LuaTeX
From 1 comment
You want a drop-in LaTeX replacement. Use LuaTeX.
qznc on HN
Lout
From 1 comment
RinohType is interesting to me because I too am frustrated by TeX/LaTeX. I agree with others that RinohType isn't (yet) a "modern LaTeX". But we need more efforts like this (see…
todd8 on HN
Pandoc
From 1 comment
LaTeX does a lot of stuff - it'd take a long time to replicate all that functionality. However, on my todo list is to write some sort of "TeX-down" wrapper for LaTeX - I want to…
StevenXC on HN