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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by ummonk on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:03AM (#44352363)
Is there really a community of volunteer contributors that could fork it if that happened? Typically with a corporate-backed project like this, the corporate development tends to crowd out the formation of a volunteer community of contributors that would be able to take over development.
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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by gf000 on Monday June 23, 2025 @05:46AM (#44353940)
All the typesetting extensions and such are a community effort. There are so many specific use cases that can only be/will be done by very specialized academics that a non-networked product would die on the vine.
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