Texlish

Texlish combines the best of LaTeX, Markdown, and indentation sensitivity to offer a clean, easy-to-read, easy-to-write syntax.

Texlish compiles to LaTeX, so it's compatible with all existing packages, and you can submit to journals, arXiv, etc. as usual.

Texlish aims to be 99% LaTeX compatible: you can write/import regular LaTeX, and gradually transition to Texlish's cleaner syntax at your own pace. We offer some features that are convenient but not strictly LaTeX-compatible, but they can all be turned off if desired, and gradually turned back on as you migrate.

Texlish also aims to be 99% Markdown compatible, offering the convenience and familiarity of Markdown for easy # Section, *emphasis*, "smart quotes", - lists, > quotes, [^footnotes], links, images, `code`, and horizontal rules. Again you can turn off any features you don't want to increase LaTeX compatibility.

Try Texlish for your next document, paper, or presentation!

Documentation

Docs are built from the docs subdirectory via Astro Starlight.

Development

To get started:

1. Check out this repo
2. corepack enable
3. pnpm install
4. pnpm build
5. pnpm link -g to install global texlish

Repeat Steps 3-4 to build the current version. (Step 3 is necessary only if package.json has changed.)

To run: texlish filename (generates filename.tex)