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About the compatibility story...

About the compatibility story...

Posted Sep 18, 2025 9:38 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: About the compatibility story... by Cyberax
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

Whether the MS Word documents render the same as they did before, hell whether they render the same on one PC as another, is another question though. (And the answer is "often not"). So your "perfectly" very likely has a wide margin of error.

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About the compatibility story...

Posted Sep 18, 2025 13:02 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Whether the MS Word documents render the same as they did before, hell whether they render the same on one PC as another, is another question though.

...Even on the *same* PC, with the *same* version of Word, "rendering the same" was not guaranteed.

(Back in the day, I recall that merely changing the printer driver was sufficient to cause the document to paginate differently..)


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