Matthew Butterick

> How can one specify the anchor points of a quad while in #lang quadwriter The low-level Quad layout functions are not exposed in Quadwriter markup, except for `anchor-from-parent` and...

> I think the rule name identifiers shouldn't have any source location information 1. Does this happen with `ragg` too, or just `brag`? 2. if `brag` handles source locations in...

I’m pretty sure I’ve never promised a “complete replacement of latex”. But I did foresee an alternate way of making PDFs with Pollen, and [yes I have done that](https://docs.racket-lang.org/quad/#%28part._.Combining_.Quadwriter_with_.Pollen%29).

For those who don’t know @otherjoel, he is a longtime Pollen user, pioneer in the Pollen/PDF nexus, and a very smart & friendly guy. Joel, I appreciate that you’re doing...

> I prefer the syntax and flexibility of Pollen, but I would still like to be able to use the features of the Scribble library Maybe I lack imagination, but...

That would be a good question for the Racket mailing list.

> Do I understand correctly that Pollen works with the source text expressed as x-expressions; whereas Scribble first converts everything to objects? Roughly, yes. But the underlying reason for this...

You could approximate a multi-pass render with two ingredients: 1) a link index that gathers the links from all the pages and emits them in some convenient format (XML, JSON,...

> Is it possible to have it pass over elements like fieldset, so I can get both the pollen file and html output I want? Try the `#:exclude-tags` option of...

At one point I thought about having templates for templates but it all got too ridiculous. In my experience most of what you describe is a matter of importing a...