Pollen Alternatives

Apps similar to Pollen include LaTeX, which is free and open source. Other options are Groff, SILE, DocBook and ConTeXt (Typesetting System). In total there are seven Markup Languages like Pollen for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. LaTeX icon
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    LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

    18 LaTeX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Groff icon
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    The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  3. SILE icon
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    SILE is a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign, but seeks to be more flexible, extensible and programmable than them.

    9 SILE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. DocBook icon
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    DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. “a system for typesetting documents based on TEX and METAPOST. You can use this system for converting documents coded in TEX format as well as documents coded in XML into high quality PDF” (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. ExactTex icon
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    A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX. Every .tex file is already valid; each annotation you add buys checked references, safe renames, and errors in your own names — before the PDF exists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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