Disclaimer 2026

I recently converted my doctoral thesis, defended in 2004, from LaTeX to Typst format. The original motivation was very simple: I could no longer compile the original LaTeX sources.

The source files for my habilitation thesis (HDR), written in late 2008 and defended in February 2009, still compile. However, I also wanted to convert them, in order to have a more modern version available in English and in HTML.

I chose to preserve the original document’s content as much as possible, while adapting the formatting to Typst’s capabilities. Obvious typos have been corrected, but broken URLs have been left as they were. This is not a new version of the thesis, but a faithful reproduction of the original document in a new typesetting system. The goal is to make the thesis content more accessible and easier to maintain, while preserving the original ideas and arguments as closely as possible.