Markdown with superpowers: a modern typesetting system.

Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Damn typesetting sounds like such a cool term. Makes me think you’re picking up each letter and putting them… actually wait is that literally what it used to mean? Putting letters in a printing press?

    • Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org
      9·
      2 months ago

      Yes, and it was a renowned job up until the late 90s/early 2000s. The job transformed drastically in the early 80s with upcoming new techniques (e.g. phototypesetting, the predecessor to digital typeset).

      Without typesetters, a major role in terms of grammar and design checks broke away. This isn’t the only factor, but since early 2000s, typos where everywhere.