Template inheritance

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Not necessarily a thread with concrete answers, but a lot of relevant discussion:

Overriding template parameters; missing social convention or Typst design flaw?

TL;DR: in my experience it is difficult or impossible to “tweak” Typst templates to change some layout policies without copying and modifying its source code. Is it just that we are collectively bad at writing templates, or a fundamental design flaw or missing feature in the Typst language? Context I’ve been using Typst for various documents for a few months now (free-form documents, talk slides, more structured document looking like math research papers). My experience is that “packages” work …