The newest pull request is:

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/7137

from what I can tell. The commits look two days old so work looks on going.

I do not understand the current set of preferences laid out in:

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/7072#issuecomment-338580...

I do not understand 8, 9 'my preference' column and why they would make the similar syntax render differently.

(Author of the post and issue comment here.)

The preferences there were honestly rather ad-hoc w.r.t to the pull request and the approach the pull request took. And (as the author laid out), the PR was a rather ad-hoc solution for a problem we discovered literally one night before Typst 0.14 was supposed to be released.

The design thoughts there were a bit half-baked, which is why we've closed the PR and reverted the original change, to get more time to properly reconsider things.

The math syntax has seen little change since Typst's initial release (except for the infamous precedence change in 0.3 that triggered all this) and just has some quirks that haven't been properly ironed out yet. However, it will remain a focus now and we want to give it a proper cleanup.