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It seems to have started slowly. For me, Github releases have failed to serve requests for hours already.

The backslashes are not really relevant to the problem discussed in the post. The ambiguity between symbols and argument-taking macros exists just the same in LaTeX. Consider: $ f_…

Pandoc [1] can convert LaTeX to Typst. [1]: https://pandoc.org/

(Author of the post and issue comment here.) The preferences there were honestly rather ad-hoc w.r.t to the pull request and the approach the pull request took. And (as the author …

While not really related to the math topic, let me answer this: - You can add an arbitrary number of trailing `[..]` blocks and they are just trailing arguments. So 2 & 3 are reall…

That's fixed, thanks to a community contribution! [1] For what it's worth, Typst did have font subsetting from the start, but it was rather bad for CFF-flavoured OpenType fonts. Th…

As one of the core developers, I would say "stubbornly sticking to their interpretation" is not entirely fair. I am open to changing this, but I don't want to do it hastily --- bec…

(Typst dev here.) That's one of the next big things we plan to work on once Typst 0.12 has shipped. :)

If you're talking about weak widow/orphan support for headings in particular, that will finally be fixed in Typst 0.12.

Hey, I'm one of the Typst devs and author of the issue. The reason there is no logging yet is because we want to get it _right_ rather than landing a permanent temporary solution. …

Good point! lr should support lengths in addition to ratios. Should be easy to add.

I'm not sure what you're referring to because when justification is enabled Typst uses almost the same line breaking algorithm as TeX. [1] One problem we had was over-eager hyphena…

Hey, Typst dev here. Regarding HTML export: It's not bikeshedding. It's more that, while we consider HTML as pretty important, we decided that fixing and improving the layout engin…

Those are supported, too.

#set text(lang: "de") would set it to German for instance. See also: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text/#parameters-lang

Typst handles hyphenation very similarly to TeX. https://github.com/typst/hypher https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/hypher/

I'm one of the Typst devs and I do agree with you here. LaTeX has a lot of trouble with accessibility because it's hard to retain semantic information through layers of macros. How…

I have a question about the point on highlighting in particular. With a subscription-based model, don't you lose out on the ability to partially highlight a file based on the visib…

If you want to write the letters phi, you can write p h i if you mean implied multiplication or "phi" if it should be a single unit. In general, Typst's syntax is designed to make …

Yes, SVG support is built-in.

It's built completely from scratch, but the math layout algorithm is based on TeX.

It's not a code example. It's Typst code that is used to calculate the fibonacci numbers that are displayed in the table.

On the shaping side, support should be quite good as rustybuzz replicates harfbuzz results 1-1. (I think, it passes the whole test suite.) Regarding higher-level text layout: We ha…

You raise many interesting problems. While I have answered each one individually below, the general answer is: Typst is still a young project and while its already possible to crea…

I would argue that font rendering and text shaping are completely separate problems. The font renderer doesn't need to know about directions, language, locales and scripts and usin…