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

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

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[-] Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org 9 points 1 week 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.