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OOH Session #115…
UNUSUAL characters:
ümlǻuts uñiçodé
& uncïăls

Open Office Hours
(February 03, 2026)

• Recap session #114
• Today’s topic(s):
  • ümlǻuts uñiçodé
    & uncïăls
    
• Shared problem-solving

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Recap of Session
#114:

typst!!

• columns
• pro letter
• other templates

no–go :

:::{.columns}

::: {.column width="50%"}
Content column 1
:::

::: {.column width="50%"}
Content column 2
:::

:::

effective :

:::{layout-ncol=2}

Content column 1

Content column 2

:::

Note

Any x integer works within layout-ncol=x – content within div will be distributed equally across x columns

---
subject: "Revision of our Procurement Contract"
name: "Jane Smith \ Regional Director"
sender: "Jane Smith, Universal Exports, 1 Heavy Plaza, Morristown, NJ 07964"
recipient: |
  Mr. John Doe \
  Acme Corp. \
  123 Glennwood Ave \
  Quarto Creek, VA 22438 \
sent: "Morristown, June 9th, 2023"
format:
  letter-typst: default
---

Dear Joe,

...

1

access the template via this alteration from standard format: typst specification

AMS, poster & dept--news templates all contain scripting that is not supported by the modern typst compiler (version 0.13.0).

2 work–arounds:

• amend scripting within .typ template (located in _extensions folder)
• install older version of Quarto & compile as usual (v 1.6.43 works)

Today…

ümläüts unicode & uncials

Ümläüts:

Numeric character references (NCRs) work across document types (typst, html, pdf).

For example,

ä = ä
ä = ä

Unicode:

Many possible characters – 159,801 currently assigned* (Unicode 17.0)

*All NCRs also have unicode values:

ä = ä

Uncials:

Session Info (February 03, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.8.1 rstudioapi_0.17.1 yaml_2.3.10       rmarkdown_2.29   
 [9] knitr_1.50        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.52         digest_0.6.37    
[13] rlang_1.1.6       evaluate_1.0.5