Wow, I thought you were exaggerating but it really is terrible. Page 15 of the manual is inexplicably 90% blank too.
So it's clearly just a super-rough prototype, which would be fine except that when it brands itself as "its job is to produce beautiful printed documents"... it gives the impression that it already does this, when the reality is clearly far, far away.
I think the project needs to be honest about where it's at.
Well it doesn’t even have a 1.0 release so that’s enough to cut them slack.
For instance, the foundation of the house is most critical but when everyone looks at the foundation and asks, “where’s the house? This house can’t be much they brand themselves as a beautiful château but all it is is a big hole in the ground...”
>Well it doesn’t even have a 1.0 release so that’s enough to cut them slack.
I mean, it's at 3000+ commits and 5+ years so it's not exactly a new project. There's something to be said for doing fewer things but doing them really well.
So it's clearly just a super-rough prototype, which would be fine except that when it brands itself as "its job is to produce beautiful printed documents"... it gives the impression that it already does this, when the reality is clearly far, far away.
I think the project needs to be honest about where it's at.
[1] https://sile-typesetter.org/manual/sile-0.10.2.pdf