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This was built initially by two PhD students in Germany if I remember correctly, they then spun it off into a company. Super impressive given how difficult typesetting is. And it's written in Rust as well!


I believe they were masters students not PhD students.


Yep, Martin Haug wrote his Master's thesis [1] about it.

[1] https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/mhaug/fast-typesetting-increme...


Laurenz Mädje (the other founder) did too:

https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/laurmaedje/programmable-markup...




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