I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by thesuperbigfrog on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:13PM (#44351655)

>> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting?

Probably because Donald Knuth created TeX and Leslie Lamport created LaTeX.

Two of the greatest minds in Computer Science created the tools and used them to write papers and articles that are beautiful.

Elegant ideas presented beautifully make reading and writing papers a nicer experience.

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by jwr on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:50PM (#44351836)

Donald Knuth. Please.

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by thesuperbigfrog on Sunday June 22, 2025 @10:05PM (#44351899)

Corrected. Thank you.

Autocorrect incorrected it for me.

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by ykonstant on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:24AM (#44354164)

>Autocorrect incorrected it for me.

I am saving this entire sequence for later use.

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by rrgok on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:23AM (#44354160)

It seems the grammar of the language was an after thought... It amazes me that he spent so much time perfecting the laying out algorithms that he could not come up with a sane language.

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