[noeontheend]

I'm nearing the 0.1 release of Burro, a new typesetting language intended specifically for text-heavy documents. (If you've used the mom macro set for groff, it will seem very familiar to you. I like to describe Burro as a spiritual successor to mom.) The goal is to eventually have all the power of TeX with a much more pleasant syntax (after all, a typesetting language should be easy to type!).

The goal of the 0.1 release is to have a strong engine for setting English text, and I'm pretty much there. The main focus of 0.2 will be the macro system and beginning work on internationalization.

I started Burro in October 2018 and took a four year break (yay side projects!). I came back to it early this year and have been working on it pretty consistently ever since. It's exciting to have gotten this far!

Website: https://burro.sh

Source: https://git.sr.ht/~reesmichael1/burro

[yencabulator]

I wanted to make sure you're aware of https://github.com/typst/typst -- Typst is a great clean formatting language that's worthy of taking on TeX!

Typst might be powerful enough that Burro's "explicit layout" desire could be implemented as a library in it.

[noeontheend]

I am! To be honest, I was a little bit sad when typst first came out, because I'd already had Burro in the works for some time before then. However, typst and Burro are very different, so there's room for both to exist!

[danielvaughn]

I love how you showed an input and output. I posted a language that I'm working on in this thread, and I'm definitely going to include that on my page.