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Here's a modern take: https://typst.app/

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For me, there is one fundamental issue which makes me want to switch from LaTeX -- it can't produce accessible documents (and good HTML would do just fine as accessible). LaTeX is making good progress in this area.

Amazingly (to me) it seems typst is doing even worse than LaTeX, while starting much later! I'm happy to be told they have succeeded in this area of course.

nicce2y ago

While the accessibility is an important area, it affects minority of the people. You need to get the core functionality first before you can spend resources on accessibility.

Latex is very old and has the features; they can focus on accessibility now.

CJefferson2y ago

No, I completely disagree. You need to design accessibility in from the start, it's almost impossible to retrofit. Very few systems manage to add high-quality accessibility later on.

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CJefferson2y ago

Amazingly (to me) it seems typst is doing even worse than LaTeX, while starting much later! I'm happy to be told they have succeeded in this area of course.

nicce2y ago

While the accessibility is an important area, it affects minority of the people. You need to get the core functionality first before you can spend resources on accessibility.

Latex is very old and has the features; they can focus on accessibility now.

CJefferson2y ago

No, I completely disagree. You need to design accessibility in from the start, it's almost impossible to retrofit. Very few systems manage to add high-quality accessibility later on.

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