plans for latex like replacement

[aalexei]

Hi, back in RacketCon 2014 you seemed keen on expanding pollen to a complete replacement of latex for authoring documents, but pollen still seems to rely heavily on latex to get to pdf. Did you encounter a show stopper in the plan, or was it just change of time/interest?

It's a neat idea, and I'm looking at pollen as a potential killer language in which to typeset lecture notes, with web and pdf as the main target outputs. At the moment though it seems like you would be fighting latex since it's designed to control the whole document production process.

[mbutterick]

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.