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by gsinclair 354 days ago
I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.
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You will end up with just a different escape character.
No it really is much lighter, see my examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520
considering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful