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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by jonathanstrange on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:29AM (#44355107)
Citation and bibliography guidelines are by far the things that authors neglect the most, and they are absolutely essential to ensure quality.

Using PDF as an input format would make editing and typesetting practically impossible. Not that I haven't seen volumes where publishers did that but the results are abysmal and in my experience that only occurred with local "grey literature" like really crappy conference proceedings edited in an institute.

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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst by IshKebab on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:11PM (#44360726)
> Using PDF as an input format would make editing and typesetting practically impossible.

But they don't do any editing or typesetting. They say "use our template" and "the author's second initial needs to be italic in citations". That's my whole point.

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