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Why would a user who types only in English prefer a system that was optimized for all languages?

• superb_dev 2y ago
  It’s better for all of us if we can collaborate with a common system. This tool will have to deal with other languages if it’s gets popular enough
• phoe-krk 2y ago
  If Typst aims for eventually competing with LaTeX, getting outside the bubble of "everyone uses English" is a very good step to take. And it's good to take it early, when your system architecture is still easy to change and not implicitly ossified around englishisms. Things like "if you ever want to translate your document from English to XXX, you will also need to port it from Typst to LaTeX" tend to be dealbreakers.
  • monista 2y ago
    Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude. Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition.
    • teo_zero 2y ago
      > Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude. On the other hand, one can easily understand why, bein German, they assume Figure, Equation, etc. will always be capitalized. > Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition. I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning.
      • monista 2y ago
        > I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning. That's strange. I've never seen a math article in English with upright 'd' differential, only have seen it in German and Spanich articles. It's also math italic in TeX (you can check Knuth's TeXbook).