1.0.0 will be reached when, given an appropriate style sheet, SILE can perform unsupervised typesetting of an arbitrary USX file (XML-based Bible translation document) to publication standard.
So, I'm really sorry about the examples. There are two issues here: first, I'm not good at coming up with compelling examples. Second, I'm not very good at keeping the examples on the web site up to date with the…
It depends on what world you operate in. For science-related work, then yes, I agree it's a dealbreaker. SILE is currently focused towards humanities publishing where not having math support is not really that big a…
Two clarifications: Image handling is rudimentary at present but I'm switching to different PDF engine (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166261/would-it-make-... and…
Just to clarify - the grid layout isn't compulsory; it's an optional package. But it's a good example of a thing which is a hard problem in TeX (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1418/grid-system-in-l...) and an…
This isn't designed for people who don't know TeX, although of course they're welcome to use it. It was designed to solve particular typesetting problems (which came up primarily in the context of typesetting Bibles,…
LuaTeX gives you hooks into the TeX system to customise certain aspects of the program's behaviour. But you can't customise the core TeX algorithms. Because the whole of SILE is written in Lua, you can replace any of…
It doesn't, yet; TeX is very good at that, so if that's a need you have, stick with TeX. I'm not trying to corner the whole typesetting market! However, it shouldn't be difficult (especially now that MathJax is in…
1.0.0 will be reached when, given an appropriate style sheet, SILE can perform unsupervised typesetting of an arbitrary USX file (XML-based Bible translation document) to publication standard.
So, I'm really sorry about the examples. There are two issues here: first, I'm not good at coming up with compelling examples. Second, I'm not very good at keeping the examples on the web site up to date with the…
It depends on what world you operate in. For science-related work, then yes, I agree it's a dealbreaker. SILE is currently focused towards humanities publishing where not having math support is not really that big a…
Two clarifications: Image handling is rudimentary at present but I'm switching to different PDF engine (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166261/would-it-make-... and…
Just to clarify - the grid layout isn't compulsory; it's an optional package. But it's a good example of a thing which is a hard problem in TeX (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1418/grid-system-in-l...) and an…
This isn't designed for people who don't know TeX, although of course they're welcome to use it. It was designed to solve particular typesetting problems (which came up primarily in the context of typesetting Bibles,…
LuaTeX gives you hooks into the TeX system to customise certain aspects of the program's behaviour. But you can't customise the core TeX algorithms. Because the whole of SILE is written in Lua, you can replace any of…
It doesn't, yet; TeX is very good at that, so if that's a need you have, stick with TeX. I'm not trying to corner the whole typesetting market! However, it shouldn't be difficult (especially now that MathJax is in…