Another project with similar aims
Another project with similar aims
Posted Sep 18, 2025 12:41 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: Another project with similar aims by epa
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement
The first company I worked at was a browser company who thought that you could meet 80% of all document pages with something simple. What we learned was that what we thought was an 80% solution really only covered 20% of the actual document space. This seems to have been the case with many other attempts I have seen over the years. You can add a couple of items in a highly opionated method of 'this is our one true way' but you quickly find that there are conflicting 'choices' in how people visually perceive layout.. In the end you either accidentally create a turing complete language or put one in on purpose.