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Ar-Curunir
on Nov 20, 2023
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Typst – Compose Papers Faster
tbqh, any serious paper writing requires formatting considerations that Markdown cannot express.
Like, if you care at all about how your paper looks, Markdown is insufficient.
contravariant
on Nov 20, 2023
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I think with pandoc there's very little you can't do, but I never tested it to its limits. Nowadays I only use LaTeX if I really need the nitty gritty formatting capabilities, at which point adding an extra layer of indirection is pointless.
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Like, if you care at all about how your paper looks, Markdown is insufficient.