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by fnands 816 days ago
> The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and gatekeeping publishers, I know it's a matter of time.

From what I have seen, it's Overleaf.

Do newer students know or care what flavour of Tex Overleaf uses in the background? Not as far as I have seen.
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miguelmurca 816 days ago
"Typst Overleaf" sounds like a fine business idea to me, if you give the user the option to export TeX (so that they can then submit it to a journal).

(If you support both LaTeX and Typst, and improve the Overleaf experience somewhat -- which is definitely possible -- I can't imagine you wouldn't steal some market share from Overleaf.)

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fnands 816 days ago
The Typst webapp [1] seems like it is already pretty similar to Overleaf.

LaTeX output seems not to be on the roadmap [2], which I can respect. The amount of weirdness you would have to workaround to get good Typst to LaTeX translation sounds like a pain. I guess the hope is that the publishing industry starts adopting Typst...

[1] https://typst.app/ [2] https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/149

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