@dginev That's because people do not know that they can use #MarkDown input with #TeX.

#LaTeX #LuaTeX

@chpietsch

Have you seen a young programmer open a .sty file? And watch them transition through the 7 stages of grief?

I did that with 20+ people back in 2007-2012. It was terror-inducing even back then, and that's a decade ago.

The clock is ticking.

@chpietsch

To write one.

@dginev @chpietsch in close to forty years of using TeX and LaTeX I have written exactly one style file, by modifying an ACM one.

The installed ecosystem of journal templates and bibliographic arcana is huge and I for one have no interest whatever in battling over typesetting. If I can push a button and convert the Maple Transactions journal template to allow authors to use Typst, great. I might even be willing to spend an hour or two (I'm retired, and learning new things is good for me). But in the end most of my authors want to publish, not to fight with software.

@3j0hn maybe if Maple could convert documents to Typst that might help.

@rcorless @chpietsch @3j0hn

Oh certainly. You won't find me trying to *move* people out of LaTeX, especially seasoned practitioners comfortable with it.

But I can tell you that there is a generational gap, which is likely to keep widening.

My day job today is to help with developing (yet-another) unofficial clone of TeX by rewriting LaTeXML in Rust. I can tell you that people like *me* are suffering in propagating the arcane software perspectives of the 1980s. Which is also the decade I was born in. We can make some small things better as-is, but large paradigm improvements - like the ones Typst is attempting - would be really great to see.