On Typesetting Engines

https://blog.ppresume.com/posts/on-typesetting-engines

The author discusses why they chose to build their resume builder in LaTeX instead of in HTML/CSS or any other alternatives, due to the shortcomings of everything else.

Has a link to LaTeX.css, which is:

an excellent example of how HTML & CSS typesetting can be pushed to its limit. It uses text-align: justify and hyphens: auto to get an optimal, aligned layout for paragraphs. This is almost the best that HTML & CSS can do. If you ever want to do some typesetting with HTML & CSS, this would be a very good reference.

They compare LaTeX to:

• LaTeX.js
• Typst
  • "a modern typesetting system designed to be an intuitive and efficient alternative to LaTeX"
• React-pdf
  • a react library that implements knuth-plass line breaking and pagination itself

Links to open-resume and oh-my-cv

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