About the compatibility story...

Posted Sep 18, 2025 20:54 UTC (Thu) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
In reply to: About the compatibility story... by iabervon
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

Have you tried modifying those .sty files?

If only the underlying language was something modern and somehow modular and encapsulated instead of a weird macro mess with not-really-scopes.

Maybe I never got deep enough into it to really appreciate its cleverness (now I do appreciate that it's 50 years old), but in my experience it doesn't exactly take just "not thinking" to not break something by an unrelated change.