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Comment by Ericson2314

LaTeX is a horrible system, that has some fans who are basically cultists. I suppose people like it cause Knuth, but remember Knuth just made Tex.

Imagine if C++ had stayed a hodge podge of extra tools compiling to C and C macros? That's LaTeX relative to TeX.

Typst should win and destroy all this stuff. If was in control of government science funding, I would just make all the journals accept it immediately, just like the open access arm twisting.

Academics are too precarious to self-advocate, and have been slaves to LaTeX's bullshit for too long. I'm grad procrastinating grad students are writing Typst packages to liberate them.

Best of luck to everyone involved.

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