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Typst makes big strides

Typst is a Rust-based text processing and layout engine that has made significant improvements, including a 20% increase in rendering speed and a 10% reduction in memory usage. It has also added support for more font formats, including OpenType and TrueType fonts. Typst is designed to be a high-performance text rendering engine, and its improvements are expected to benefit applications that rely on it, such as document editors and PDF viewers. The project's author, Oleg Dzhimiev, has also made improvements to the engine's stability and concurrency, and has added new features such as support for complex text layout and improved text shaping. Typst is an open-source project, and its improvements are available for use in any application that requires high-performance text rendering capabilities.

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