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I don't think this was ever my issue with Latex, which instead are mostly:

- the cryptic error messages and infinite logs

- the unintuitive ways to do stuff like store a value for later use or sum two lengths

- the very long compile times

- the amount of reliance on global state from various packages, which contributes to even more cryptic errors or weird behavior when something goes wrong

- various other quirks, e.g. the fact you often need to end a line with a comment or the newline will skrew up your content.






You forgot the of syntax that is latex. Very hard to read. (Worked with it for 20 years)

Typst on the other hand is inherently readable.


I could deal with all of the other issues if it weren't for the absurdly long compile times. I wonder where most of that time is spent.

Some is spent on optimizing the results on the paragraph, page, and multi-page level: river elimination, color balance, widow and orphan elimination, etc. I don't know how much of this Typst does; certainly HTML + CSS does none of it.



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