In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
ners perhaps? :)

Could someone merge: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/500985 ? It already has approvals

Thanks Lassulus

could someone have a look at this?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/521196

emily: infinisil and I figured out our mystery variable.

This is the culprit: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d24b8f40e1b22fbb612caae9d647bff9f341b22e/pkgs/build-support/dart/build-dart-application/default.nix#L205

Documentation: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.27/language/advanced-attributes.html#adv-attr-passAsFile

A list of names of attributes that should be passed via files rather than environment variables.
[...] That is, for any attribute x listed in passAsFile, Nix will pass an environment variable xPath holding the path of the file containing the value of attribute x. This is useful when you need to pass large strings to a builder, since most operating systems impose a limit on the size of the environment (typically, a few hundred kilobyte).

I can't remember with whom but we wondered wheter Typst would produce as nice output as LaTeX.
It seems it does.

Typst output is quite close to that of LaTeX. It uses the same line-breaking algorithm developed by Donald Knuth and Michael Plass for TeX, so it creates nicely balanced paragraphs of regular text. Its mathematical typesetting algorithms are based closely on the TeX algorithms, and indeed mathematical rendering is nearly indistinguishable between the two systems.

In reply to @nebucatnetzer13:matrix.org

I can't remember with whom but we wondered wheter Typst would produce as nice output as LaTeX.
It seems it does.

Typst output is quite close to that of LaTeX. It uses the same line-breaking algorithm developed by Donald Knuth and Michael Plass for TeX, so it creates nicely balanced paragraphs of regular text. Its mathematical typesetting algorithms are based closely on the TeX algorithms, and indeed mathematical rendering is nearly indistinguishable between the two systems.