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Italics correction

Italics correction

Posted Sep 27, 2025 19:59 UTC (Sat) by callegar (guest, #16148)
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

One thing that made me suffer when I tried Typst is the lack of proper italics correction.

Images on this issue report show the problem very well: https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1021#issuecomment-1...

May seem a niche case, but it is in fact much easier to encounter it than not. And if you do, you bounce back to LaTeX, even if the problem is not really Typst fault, but the fact that in OpenType there is no provision for treating these situations and Typst bases its rendering on what the fonts provide, without the heuristics that are present in LaTeX from a time when fonts where much more basic things.

Incidentally, also modern LaTeX engines have some problems with OpenType, particularly in managing line breaks with hyphenation and ligatures. Using LuaLaTeX with the "harfbuzz" renderer that is a standard in many applications and makes document compilation much faster wrt the specialized renderer that LuaLaTeX uses as a default, leads to loss of many hyphenation points: see https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload/wiki/Comparing-the-m... and https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload/issues/152#issuecomm... for more details.


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