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Check out Typst, a modern LaTeX alternative (flowbit.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by runiq@feddit.de to c/rust@programming.dev
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The one dealbreaker for me in Typst is the current lack of locale-aware decimal separators. The rest of it is so good that I've donated a couple times.

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[–] runiq@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Scripting it is really much, much easier than, say, LaTeX.

Oh yes, this is absolutely my favorite improvement over LaTeX: Namespacing for packages! As a result, there's already a healthy package ecosystem. :)