Ecosystem

Everything above is self-contained: palimpsest works with nothing else installed. letter(...) runs on top of contexture, a small shared package none of these tools ship duplicated logic for — you don’t need to know anything about it to use palimpsest as documented in this manual.

letter(...) is also just a description of a document to build, which means it combines cleanly, in the same compile, with sibling packages built the same way:

• checkitoff — reporting-guideline checklists (CONSORT, PRISMA, SPIRIT, STARD, STROBE) that cite the manuscript’s real pages.
• colophon — a word-count and figure/table audit of the composed manuscript, reading straight through palimpsest’s own marks.

For worked examples of combining them, and an explicit list of what works and what doesn’t once two packages’ marking functions might touch the same span of text, see Combining packages. For the shared mechanism underneath all of it — the anchor primitive and the compile engine that let several packages contribute to the same compile — see contexture’s own manual.