Post #1865019
2026-03-17 19:16 UTC
@michalfita When I started working on Talmudifier, typst didn't have all of the functionality that it required. Since then, it seems like it might. At this point though, I'd have to replace most of the code to switch to typst, and there's just not a good enough reason to do that. Additionally, Talmudifier relies on intermediary data that's cheap to "render", and I don't know if there's an analogue to that in typst. (Basically: there needs to be a way to get line counts without rendering)
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@esther_alter@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 19:17
@michalfita It's not exactly XeTeX either. It's tectonic, which is XeTeX-like but it's a Rust crate. Compiling can be tricky because it needs some linked libraries, but Talmudifier is a standalone program that doesn't need to, say, grab output from stdout