Accurate

This gives me PTSD.

Haha for real though 😅

Badness is over 9000

I've completely switched over to Typst and it's so much better. All of the typesetting capabilities of LaTex but without 99% of the headache. Now all it needs is all of the neat little edge case extensions that LaTeX has gathered over the years. And possibly a real scripting language interface like LuaTex.

Interesting, not seen that before. I guess my main concern is whether it has enough community support to keep going if the business part of it goes under?
Also is there a particular restriction to the claimed scripting language that makes it not "real"?
- I would say the general design philosophy. It works pretty much perfectly for what it's supposed to do. But the strong suit of LuaTex is that it can execute pretty much any code you want. So, you could in theory execute a fluid simulation each time you compile your document and insert the result as an image. The Typst Scripting language obviously can't do that because it's locked into the typst sandbox.
  My particular use case is that I have some data accessible via an open API and I would love to skip the step where I update the data CSV every day or week. So, not really a breaking feature, but nice to have nonetheless.
- business part of it
  This is the part I don't want.
I'm sorry, but I won't create my texts using a proprietary SaaS that will just eventually go away.
- What do you mean? The typst compiler is open source. The proprietary stuff is just the web app, and it's the equivalent to what Overleaf is to LaTeX (with essentially the same business model).
- WTF is everyone going on about proprietary? The entire thing is under Apache 2.0 license. Where the hell do you even get the idea that Typst is proprietary?

You didn't even do LaTeX

Nah, the image wouldn't be on the cover, it'd be three pages later.

I don't use Latex, but I have a ton of O'Reilly books and the Orly made me laugh hard.

There are many more ;)
https://orlybooks.com/
- Fantastic, thank you! I need my copy of Blaming the User right away.

That hbox is much more than 9.895pt too wide.

Maybe it's a really really small book
badness 10000

My CV is still to this day in LateX and I still kinda regret that decision.

It just brought more headaches.

I've just converted some Latex university notes into slides using AI. It was butter smooth.

AI is great for this btw.

I never did figure out how to not get overfull hbox errors, does anyone know?

Reword your text to fit.
- Aaah, LaTeX, where you don’t have to care about the formatting, but do have to care about which words to use so you don’t have to care about the formatting.
It's because LaTeX has abstracted away all the lovely plain TeX macros and people treat it as a way to not have to think about typography. This is a good explanation: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-2/tb39taylor-para.pdf
The microtype package helps a bit by squeezing letters.