Typesetting

notes on typesetting tools etc

Created: Nov 02, 2022 by Pradeep Gowda Updated: May 03, 2024 Tagged: typesetting

Typesetting systems

Classic

• SILE typesetter
• Mom - Macros for GNU troff
• Lout; github - new maintainer.

New

Typst: Compose papers faster

• Based off this research work - Fast Typesetting with Incremental Compilation PDF
• github repos

See also: A Quick How-to on using LuaTeX with ConTeXt, pandoc, typesetting, groff.

PDF

pdf.tocgen is a set of command-line tools for automatically extracting and generating the table of contents (ToC) of a pdf file. It uses the embedded font attributes and position of headings to deduce the basic outline of a pdf file.