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I have just taken a look to the syntax. It is pretty close to djot [1]. Of course Typst is more powerful than djot. One noticeable difference is the chosen markup for headers (`=` instead of `#`).
This could be nice to reduce differences and make Typst a close-to superset of djot.
Note for the authors: I have just taken a look to the syntax. It is pretty close to djot [1]. Of course Typst is more powerful than djot. One noticeable difference is the chosen markup for headers (`=` instead of `#`). This could be nice to reduce differences and make Typst a close-to superset of djot. [1] https://www.djot.net
Impressive, as a Master's thesis, but also as a long-term project. I've been recently working on a book project, and I've reviewed all the tools available. My current conclusion is that I found nothing that would combine the simplicity of Markdown or Asciidoc with the typographical control of LaTeX. This project seems to hit the sweet spot. Is the source code of the thesis available somewhere? Of other works created…
How do you handle citations and citation styles? Was scanning the thesis but could find any hints?
As far as I can tell it compiles directly to pdf, which seems a non-starter for submitting to many journals which accept either latex or word documents. This would need various compiler backends (perhaps via pandoc) to be that useful. Certainly it would help adoption if you could emit, eg., markdown/latex/etc. and others you're working with wouldn't need to adopt your tooling.
I really like the paper, though I'm not sure the world needs another Turing-complete document language however well-motivated ;) As SGML pedant however, I can't resist commenting on the following: > The second offspring of SGML is XML, specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998. It has a reduced feature set compared to SGML (for example, it forbids unclosed tags and concurrent markup). But it retains th…
What would you recommend instead? From my experience of the beta it is vastly nicer to use than latex, and I'm not really aware of any other competition.