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I am really hopeful for Scribble from Racket as a Latex replacement.

> Scribble is a collection of tools for creating prose documents—papers, books, library documentation, etc.—in HTML or PDF (via Latex) form. More generally, Scribble helps you write programs that are rich in textual content, whether the content is prose to be typeset or any other form of text to be generated programmatically.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

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Do you know how it relates to Skribilo (http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo)? I think that they are both derived from Skribe, but I got the impression that Scribble is more oriented towards documentation, whereas Skribilo is intended more as a general-purpose markup language. Maybe that distinction is specious. (I've been dying to try Skribilo as a properly programmable LaTeX alternative, but I can't manage to install it.)

Very interesting. I'd be interested in seeing what an alternative to latex based on S-expressions would look like. I'm tempted to try and write it first as a scheme library; the end goal would be to have something more structured and closer to a programming language than latex, with a better content/styling separation…

Well Racket doesn't get more scheme like besides well Scheme :) Personally I find Racket to be my favorite Programming Language due to the Lisp and Schemeness.

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