[Tex/LaTex] How to simulate old typewriter?

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Use LaTeX to simulate old typewriter written texts

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I need to typeset a report such that it looks like it was written by an old, unreliable typewriter.

I have looked into the memoir class, however it has chapter numbering which I don't want. It also looks too clean.

I have looked into the manuscript package, but it looks way too clean for what I want.

Digging around I found a typewriter package, but it is no longer on CTAN and even getting the .sty from the author's git I can't get it to work properly: probably because it requires compiling with lualatex which I have zero experience with.

Is there an available package that does what I want easily? Namely, that makes my document look like it was written with an old, unreliable typewriter.

Alternatively, is there a way to get the typewriter package to work?

Alternatively, even just editing the memoir class such that it behaves more like article would be acceptable.

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Regarding the questions about memoir: if you don't want chapters numbered then put setsecnumdepth{part} in your preamble or, for all classes with \chapter use \chapter* to have an unnumbered title.

To make memoir output similar to that of the article class use the article option:

\documentclass[...,article]{memoir}

With this option \chapter behaves as \section, \section as \subsection and so on. This ability was introduced to help those (many) authors (or their supervisors) who could not decide between report or book class type output and an article style document without having to do extensive rewrites.