There is a myriad of requirements for a modern typesetting system: From Unicode support to i18n, i10n, and a11y. From a large corpus of markup languages to multiple image file formats. From EPUB to PDF. People do not want to miss out latest trends in typography like variable fonts and emojis. And in the end, every part could be provided by a human, a computer, or some AI.

Do we have the tools at hand? Can one system even implement all those requirements? I want to evaluate how various tools like established LaTeχ, newcomer typst, and various others like speedata Publisher and SILE satisfy those requirements. What are their strengths and what are their weaknesses? Can they be adapted to missing requirements? And what about frontends like sphinx and Quarto?

My goal for this talk is to give every attendee some guidance for the future which tool might suit their usecase.