[HN Gopher] Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
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       Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
        
       Author : nesarkvechnep
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2024-10-27 15:57 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | ashton314 wrote:
       | Butterick is a sharp guy. I absolutely love one of the books he
       | made with Pollen: _Practical Typography_
       | http://practicaltypography.com/
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       | Pollen seems like a power tool; my needs are largely met by
       | Scribble, but I'd like to get more comfortable with Pollen.
        
         | forty wrote:
         | Can it generate PDF / e-books? The author seems to be against
         | both, at least for their own books, but my e-book reader cannot
         | read websites conveniently.
        
       | aseipp wrote:
       | Pollen is great. I wish it was more widely used. One of the only
       | reasons I don't use it for most things is that adding the whole
       | of Racket as a dependency comes across as a little much.
       | 
       | One of my "one day..." projects is to try and reimplement a
       | subset of Pollen using https://github.com/racket/zuo which I
       | think would make it much easier to integrate as a much smaller
       | dependency. But maybe the whole "ease of use" budget is blown by
       | using a Lisp in the first place. :)
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       | In any case, if you've ever had to write a technical manual
       | before (or some kind of heavy technical reference), I think you
       | should give Pollen a try. It has much more general answers to a
       | lot of problems you encounter when writing complex web documents.
       | It is an interesting, useful, and pragmatic point in the design
       | space, IMO.
        
         | harrisi wrote:
         | I haven't used Racket much since the CS rewrite, but it's
         | slimmer now, isn't it? I remember Racket feeling a bit chunky
         | when I was using it more, years ago, but I thought part of the
         | rewrite was to address that (among all the other benefits).
        
           | ashton314 wrote:
           | There is a minimal Racket distribution which should be a lot
           | lighter. CS has made the code base cleaner and Racket
           | zippier.
        
       | jhoechtl wrote:
       | What is the difference between a publishing system and a type
       | setting system? Am I able to output tables and what would he the
       | syntax?
        
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