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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by dustin1114 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:23PM (#48289185)
typst is great. I experimented with it, it I simply didn't have the fine-tuning and maturity LaTeX. For example, window/orphan control is a binary on/off, while LaTeX calculates by penalties at a much lower level. Pandoc is also great (I used it often for unrelated workflows), but it can't map custom styles from ODT files (not sure about Word).
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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by huijzer on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:01AM (#48290262)
Seems it’s currently a percentage: https://forum.typst.app/t/how-to-leave-a-single-line-of-para...

On Pandoc I agree. Word custom styles is possible I believe but it will be a mess (as usual with Word).

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by ahknight on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:06AM (#48295479)
The funny thing is that you can use both a style template and content template with the DOCX exporter of pandoc and _export_ custom styles. You just can't import them.

Works great on my MD -> DOCX/PDF/HTML workflows but not the inverse, alas.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by huijzer on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:25PM (#48314944)
It also makes no sense to go reverse. Maybe practically, but from the Word generated garbage your not gonna get something useful
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