About the compatibility story...

Posted Sep 18, 2025 20:58 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652)
In reply to: About the compatibility story... by iabervon
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

This. Unfortunately some functionality relies on external programs (e.g. eps<->X conversions). Those do bitrot.

There was ConTeXt as well. I'm not sure of its status. And "worse is better" seems to have been a thing for me this week in many venues.