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Thanks Simon for your great work! I know scientists are found of LaTeX. But SILE is very lightweight; I can typeset using the most simple text editor e.g. nano and then view (with automatic updating) with Evince. Also, SILE is very good in handling Unicode characters, which I must use when writing documents in my mother language, Vietnamese.

I am looking forward for your implementation of SILE on Windows. Also, I see that SILE, due to its small size, is very suitable for ARM platforms. So could you consider building a package for Linux armel or armhf?

Also I am thinking of math typesetting. I can invest some time on this and would be very glad if you could give some advice scripting such a math package.

All my best,
Chien


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Simon Cozens <simon@simon-cozens.org> wrote:
SILE is a typesetting system written (almost) entirely in Lua. See
http://www.sile-typesetter.org/

Version 0.9.2 of SILE has been released and is [available for download][1].

## Version 0.9.2 (2015-06-03)

* New packages for: rotated content, accessing OpenType features and
ligatures, alternative input of Unicode characters, PDF bookmarks and
links, input transformation.

* Packages to help with typesetting chord sheets and bibles.

* Experimental packages for bibliography management, typesetting URLs,
Japanese vertical typesetting, balanced columns, and best-fit page breaking.

* Support for quoted strings in the parameters to TeX-like commands.

* Language support: Many fixes to Arabic; support for Tibetan and
Kannada; hyphenation for many languages; much improved bidirectional
typesetting.

* Warn when frames are overfull.

* Support for older versions of autotools, for Lua 5.3 and mingw32
environments.

* Continuous integration and testing framework

* Fixes to long-standing bugs in grid support, centering, ligatures,
insertions and page breaking.

* Better font handling and substitution.

* Valid PDFs will still be generated on error/interruption.

* Improved error handling and error messages.

* Many miscellaneous bug fixes.

[1]: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/releases/tag/v0.9.2