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> and one area the current crop is bad at is doing layout in anything but latex. Not that they are good at latex, but they are terrible, terrible, terrible at typst

I'm surprised to hear that—I've been using GitHub Copilot with ConTeXt [0] since 2021, and it mostly works fairly well. And ConTeXt is much more obscure than Typst (but also much older, so maybe that gives it an advantage?).

[0] https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Introduction/Quick_Start

vessenes
I’ll tell you my failing prompt - hopefully you can help! I haven’t tried since 4.0 / o3 / 2.5 pro came out.

I want a flowed book layout (so we have a facing page with inner and outer margins.)

I am rendering chats in the main part of the page. Chats alternate left and right alignment so it looks a bit like a text conversation. For each chat I want to put metadata (reactions, sender, time) on the margin it is aligned to.

So For a left chat, on a left page, I want to use the left (outside) margin. A left chat right hand page the inside margin.

Two things I could not get sorted: first, perfect vertical alignment between the chat and metadata, ( I think this is possible but difficult) and a persnickety bug where the first chat on each page chooses the last page’s proper margin side.

Happy to pay for an answer - I did try to hire a typesetter for this as well.

vessenes
Update, o3 couldn't do it -- but gemini 0605 did! Fairly esoteric set of packages were pulled in and the vertical layout is rock steady.

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