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I want to belive, but i have seen serveral TeX alternatives (Such as ANT [1][2] and Rhinotype[3]), but they all die very quickly.

Esp. ANT would have been a fantastic improvement.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090310012257/http://ant.berlio... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant.berlios/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668551

Patoline is a great project, that I have mentioned a few times in comments.

To start gaining traction though, it should migrate from darcs to git, and move their own repo to github. It would enable people to contribute more easily, as well as bug reporting and editing the documentation.

The tarball is still there, though.

The commit graph (http://wiki.patoline.org/developers.html) shows commits every month from December 2011 to now.

> Is this project still alive?

pmeunier (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pmeunier), one of the authors, discusses this a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8026930 (though without, I think, committing to any definitive answer).