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		erik_seaberg on March 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is n... Does this delegate to plain TeX or render text by itself? Knuth spent years on stuff like kerning of formulas and hyphenation.

laurmaedje on March 21, 2023 [–]

It's built completely from scratch, but the math layout algorithm is based on TeX.

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