Equivalent packages

There are several packages from the LaTeX/conTeXt world that are worth considering for porting to SILE, or providing an equivalent set of features. This list is not exhaustive.

• floating figures (see #458)

  • built-in in LaTeX (placement on separate page with collected floats, top of split page, floats at the end)
  • placeins for \FloatBarrier

• text flow around figure in paragraph (drop caps as special case #394)

  • wrapfig in LaTeX
  • lettrine for drop caps

  NOTE: Since SILE 0.12.1, a dropcaps package is now provided, with much more robust functionality than the previous floating frame mechanism formerly used for this.

• TikZ (#437) and/or solutions for typesetting graphs and diagrams

  • See also discussion https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/discussions/1807
  • NOTE: Some niche areas are covered by 3rd-party packages:
    • piecharts.sile (Pie charts)
    • embedders.sile (Graphviz DOT, Lilypond)

• tables (#45)

  • ctable
  • booktabs
  • tabu

  NOTE: 3rd-party package ptable.sile is a possible way for addressing tables, with SILE 0.14.0 or upper.

• flexible footnotes (#372)

  • footmisc
  • endnotes

  NOTE: 3rd-party collection resilient.sile for SILE 0.14.0 or upper offers more customization options on footnote styling. (It doesn't address some concerns, and endnotes are not covered, so any effort in these directions are still interesting.)

• built-in document classes (#455)

  • book, article, ...

  NOTE: 3rd-party collection resilient.sile for SILE 0.14.0 or upper includes an augmented book class.