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michal_h21 on June 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting sys...

This was true maybe 20 years ago, before TeX engines that output directly to PDF were created. Today, the recommended engine is LuaLaTeX, and it defaults to OpenType fonts.

nailer on June 3, 2025 [–]

Thanks for updating me. That corresponds with my own timeline where I last tried it 20 years ago.

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