Re:Typst 0.13 is out now
by JadeNB on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:59PM
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> There is a Typst package called MiTeX that supports at least some basic TeX input.
I can see that being useful for lots of people, but, as a migration path (as I understood your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106837 to suggest), I don't think it would work. I've worked with TeX for almost 30 years and used vim for about 20 years, and suspect that "supports … some basic TeX" is likely to have the same effect for me as something that emulates vim does on a master-level vimmer—falling into the uncanny valley that's somehow worse than a totally different thing.
I can see that being useful for lots of people, but, as a migration path (as I understood your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106837 to suggest), I don't think it would work. I've worked with TeX for almost 30 years and used vim for about 20 years, and suspect that "supports … some basic TeX" is likely to have the same effect for me as something that emulates vim does on a master-level vimmer—falling into the uncanny valley that's somehow worse than a totally different thing.