This gives me PTSD.
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Haha for real though π
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You didn't even do \LaTeX
I've completely switched over to Typst and it's so much better. All of the typesetting capabilities of LaTex but without 99% of the headache. Now all it needs is all of the neat little edge case extensions that LaTeX has gathered over the years. And possibly a real scripting language interface like LuaTex.
Interesting, not seen that before. I guess my main concern is whether it has enough community support to keep going if the business part of it goes under?
Also is there a particular restriction to the claimed scripting language that makes it not "real"?
I would say the general design philosophy. It works pretty much perfectly for what it's supposed to do. But the strong suit of LuaTex is that it can execute pretty much any code you want. So, you could in theory execute a fluid simulation each time you compile your document and insert the result as an image. The Typst Scripting language obviously can't do that because it's locked into the typst sandbox.
My particular use case is that I have some data accessible via an open API and I would love to skip the step where I update the data CSV every day or week. So, not really a breaking feature, but nice to have nonetheless.
At this point a regular Makefile might be in order that can do any data fetching or preprocessing before calling the typst compiler.
Yeah, there's a lot of ways to do this. As I said, it's more of a nice to have feature rather than anything else.
business part of it
This is the part I don't want.
Yeah well, too bad. Even open source needs money. If you don't want to support the team, then don't. But quit whining. Typst is completely Open Source.
Their business model is providing a cloud hosted platform for your projects. But if you don't want that then you can just run it offline on your local machine.
I swear, some people here remind me every day why a significant portion of the population hates us leftists!
Now I'm definitely sticking with LaTeX. Thanks.
Can you show me the room? The room with the people who care? Because I sure as hell don't!
I'm sorry, but I won't create my texts using a proprietary SaaS that will just eventually go away.
What do you mean? The typst compiler is open source. The proprietary stuff is just the web app, and it's the equivalent to what Overleaf is to LaTeX (with essentially the same business model).
WTF is everyone going on about proprietary? The entire thing is under Apache 2.0 license. Where the hell do you even get the idea that Typst is proprietary?
I thought It was freely licenced?
Looks like I was wrong.
Nah, the image wouldn't be on the cover, it'd be three pages later.
I don't use Latex, but I have a ton of O'Reilly books and the Orly made me laugh hard.
There are many more ;)
Fantastic, thank you! I need my copy of Blaming the User right away.
That hbox is much more than 9.895pt too wide.
Maybe it's a really really small book
badness 10000
My CV is still to this day in LateX and I still kinda regret that decision.
It just brought more headaches.
I've just converted some Latex university notes into slides using AI. It was butter smooth.
AI is great for this btw.
I never did figure out how to not get overfull hbox errors, does anyone know?
Reword your text to fit.
Aaah, LaTeX, where you donβt have to care about the formatting, but do have to care about which words to use so you donβt have to care about the formatting.
I also hate that warning, but itβs basically βCanβt fit your text, with the font and properties you specified, into the box you specified without making it look like assβ
Easiest way to preserve formatting is to reword the text. Then again, would be nice if it didnβt happen all the time in my normal paragraphs as soon as I use a word with more than 10 charactersβ¦
The microtype package helps a bit by squeezing letters.
It's because LaTeX has abstracted away all the lovely plain TeX macros and people treat it as a way to not have to think about typography. This is a good explanation: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-2/tb39taylor-para.pdf