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• The Document Format — The engine itself is small — boxes, glue, macros, math. The familiar article furniture (titles, sections, lists, figures) comes from a format you load at the top of a document:
• Text and Markup — texish turns ASCII source into proper typography, as TeX does — the body font enables these so they fire in ordinary running text:
• Programming and Data — Every texish document is a program, whether or not it looks like one. A \section is a macro, a page number is a variable, and the packages that give a…
• Hyphenation — Hyphenation is what lets a justified paragraph keep its spacing even. Without it the line breaker can only stretch and shrink the spaces between whole words, so a long word…
• Mathematics — texish has a TeX math mode set in Latin Modern Math through an OpenType MATH table. Math is delimited by dollar signs: a single $…$ for inline math, a doubled…
• Figures and Images — \includegraphics places a raster image — PNG or JPEG — at its natural size, or sized by an optional key=value list:
• Vector Graphics — \picture opens a fixed-size drawing that flows in the text like any other box, so a diagram sits beside prose and prints through the same backend as the page. Inside…
• Chemistry — The chem package adds chemical reaction equations and 2D structure drawings. Load it with:
• Plotting — The plot package draws 2-D data plots — line graphs, scatter plots, bar charts, and function curves — with labelled axes, tick marks, a grid, a legend, and reference lines.…
• Railroad diagrams — The railroad package turns a grammar written in W3C-style EBNF into railroad (syntax) diagrams — one picture per rule, drawn over the vector-graphics layer. Load it with:
• Node-and-edge diagrams — The diagram package draws node-and-edge diagrams — block diagrams, state machines, flowcharts, dependency graphs — over the vector-graphics layer. A node is a named, measured box of some shape; an…
• Calendars — The calendar package draws month-grid calendars over the vector-graphics layer. A month is one \picture box — a title bar with the month and year, a weekday header row, and…
• Barcodes — Two two-dimensional symbologies, each in its own package: QR Code and Data Matrix. Both draw the symbol as one vector rectangle per dark module over the graphics layer, so it…
• Chess — The chess package sets chess diagrams and game scores. Load it with:
• Right-to-left text — texish sets right-to-left scripts — Hebrew and Arabic — alongside left-to-right text in the same paragraph. It lays out and breaks every paragraph in logical (reading) order, exactly as TeX…
• Devanagari (Hindi) — texish sets Devanagari — the script of Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit — with the syllable shaping the script needs. Devanagari is written left to right, so unlike Hebrew and Arabic…
• Bengali–Assamese — texish sets the Bengali–Assamese script — used for Bengali, Assamese and several other languages — with the syllable shaping the script needs. Like Devanagari it is written left to right,…
• Gujarati — texish sets the Gujarati script with the syllable shaping it needs. Like Devanagari, Bengali and the other Indic scripts it is written left to right, so it needs no bidirectional…
• Gurmukhi (Punjabi) — texish sets the Gurmukhi script — used for Punjabi as written in India — with the syllable shaping the script needs. Like Devanagari and Bengali it is written left to…
• Kannada — texish sets the Kannada script with the syllable shaping it needs. Like the other Indic scripts it is written left to right, so it needs no bidirectional reordering; what it…
• Telugu — texish sets the Telugu script with the syllable shaping it needs. Like Devanagari, Bengali and Gurmukhi it is written left to right, so it needs no bidirectional reordering; what it…
• Tamil — texish sets the Tamil script with the syllable shaping it needs. Like Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi and Telugu it is written left to right, so it needs no bidirectional reordering; what…
• Ethiopic — texish sets the Ethiopic script — Amharic, Tigrinya and Ge’ez — and it is the one non-Latin script here that needs no shaping at all. It is written left to…
• Chinese, Japanese & Korean — texish sets the CJK scripts — Chinese, Japanese and Korean — with the line breaking each needs and a bundled face for each region. The three share the Han characters…
• Rendering in the Browser — texish runs in the browser through its Scala.js build, so a web page can typeset math and whole documents on the client the way KaTeX does — no server, no…