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Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use"

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Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use" - sh.itjust.works

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Jerkface (any/all)Mar 18

“As powerful as LaTeX” is a huge claim. How strong is this claim?

Edit: The claim is that it is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX, not that it presently is. Does it reach its goal?

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badabim

Some journals and conferences are starting to accept Typst.

Personally, the huge difference with LaTeX is that if I want to do something slightly complex that is not covered by a third-party plugin, I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty and script it myself, whereas in LaTeX, I dread writing macros that do more than being notations/shorthands.

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