Typesetting Sys... Why Am I Doing This Again?
Markdown, WYSIWYG editors, LaTeX and Typst, and why none of them is a silver bullet
Matei Barbu published on 1 min, 59 words
Typesetting is the art of arranging text on a page so that the reader stays blissfully unaware of it. This essay walks through the tools that promise to do that for us: Markdown and its extensions, WYSIWYG editors like Word and Confluence, troff, TeX and LaTeX, AsciiDoc and Pandoc, and finally Typst.