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I'm interested to hear what you would propose.
Not sure what GP had in mind, but one can programmatically generate PDFs directly, without using something like Typst as a "middleman".
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Exactly. It's not too difficult to imagine replacing LaTeX for some fairly straight-forward documents. But just by casually browsing tex.stackexchange.com, you'll soon find out that people use LaTeX for an amazingly wide range of different things, and it's capable of serving many, many edge cases very well. To be on par with that is a very hard goal. Let's not forget, LaTeX has been around forever, and consequently h…
I mean, the same is true for Emacs. But that hasn't stopped other editors (e.g. VSCode) from developing large vibrant communities of users and tooling.
Typst is not replacing LaTeX in general and should stop advertising being a LaTeX replacement. It isn't a competitor.
A number of past discussions and related things: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=typst 1 year ago, 146 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250210 8 months ago, 34 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354422 2 years ago, 53 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590 2 years ago 30 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794
A number of past discussions and related things: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=typst 1 year ago, 146 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250210 8 months ago, 34 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354422 2 years ago, 53 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590 2 years ago 30 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794
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Does the law specify PDF? I would have thought pain text or even HTML would be sufficient.
I don’t know the situation in India but brokers in Austria and Germany do the same. The law does not stipulate the format but PDF is what everyone uses. I assume it’s because it can be signed and archived and will outlast pretty much anything. You need to keep these for 7 years.
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Someone mentioned that pandoc works decently for this.
I am using pandoc to transfer some of my notes to the web: https://ykonstant1.github.io/power-draft.html
Re-did my resume using one of their templates, and it’s much easier to maintain now.
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I mean, the same is true for Emacs. But that hasn't stopped other editors (e.g. VSCode) from developing large vibrant communities of users and tooling.
But Emacs isn't a requirement by half the STEM research community, LaTeX is. Typst is not replacing LaTeX in general and should stop advertising being a LaTeX replacement. It isn't a competitor.
Having composed many pieces of coursework using Typst, I must say that it certainly makes academic writing more streamlined, engaging, and dare I say fun — though that might just be me. The functional nature of Typst's syntax ensures I don't have the erratic behaviour emblematic of modern day Microsoft Word and sometimes even Google Docs. Using a local IDE such as VSCode brings all the features one could like. In com…
Having composed pieces of academic writing, I would like that, journals would start to supporting typst, or, plugins/bridges to LaTeX/Word would fall in place. For now I would not chose to write a paper in typst, because I most certainly need to convert it once it leaves the institution (even arXiv require LaTeX source). Tooling around LaTeX is quite good today, with a plethora of IDEs helping. Personally I use Emacs…