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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by _Algernon_ on Monday June 23, 2025 @03:46AM (#44353392)
For me personally, I have yet to figure out how to get a word processor to have text be justified on both sides without inserting big gaps between words. I could use left justified but then the text ends up looking like a saw blade, which is still ugly.

Latex' handling of floating figures and tables is also much better.

And of course math notation is much nicer to work with in LaTeX (IMO).

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by electroly on Monday June 23, 2025 @03:51AM (#44353416)
In Word, set the paragraph alignment to justified and enable automatic hyphenation.

You can actually use LaTeX math notation in the equation editor in modern Word.

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