SvelTeX

Theme

Acknowledgments ​

Like all software, SvelTeX owes an immense debt to prior work. Below I list a small fraction of the works on which SvelTeX relies, focusing on direct dependencies.

All of the software listed below is open-source, available under MIT, GPL, or (in the case of fonts) SIL licences.

Inspiration ​

Without these the project would've had little reason to exist:

  • Svelte: The frontend JS framework for which this project is built.
  • LaTeX: An incredibly powerful typesetting system with a huge ecosystem of packages.
  • PGF/TikZ: An amazing vector graphics language in TeX.

Similar works to SvelTeX, which also inspired it:

  • MDsveX: A great Svelte preprocessor that's become the de facto standard for Svelte Markdown processing.

Libraries ​

Direct dependencies ​

  • micromark: A tiny, very powerful markdown parser. Most of SvelTeX's parsing functionality is powered by micromark.

Indirect dependencies ​

  • dvisvgm: A fantastic tool for converting DVI, PDF, and XDV files to SVG. Bundled with texlive.

    Note: SvelTeX doesn't bundle it dvisvgm, but rather spawns child processes that invokes dvisvgm on the user's system, if it is available. As such, SvelTeX can be licensed under MIT, despite dvisvgm being GPL. This is my understanding, anyhow.

Development ​

  • Vitest: Unit testing.
  • Playwright: Integration testing.
  • fast-check: Property-based testing (aka. fuzzy testing).
  • Knip: Project linter to find unused files, dependencies and exports.

Site ​

  • VitePress: Great SSG using Vite and Vue to render docs from Markdown.

Syntax highlighting ​

  • Shiki: A beautiful, fast, and feature-rich syntax highlighter.
  • twoslash: Powers the IntelliSense in the code blocks, together with floating-vue.

Graphics ​

  • Phosphor icons: A wonderful collection of 1,200+ icons in 6 weights each.

Typography ​

  • Inter: An extremely high-quality sans-serif.
  • Monaspace: Advanced superfamily of monospaced fonts by GitHub Next.

And so much more ​

This list could go on and on, but it might become a bit frivolous at some point; after all, backtracking dependencies and intellectual debts is often an endless pursuit.