markdown + latex templates + pandoc is the dream combo. no need to learn a new syntax like typst or emacs org-mode.
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#42markdown + latex templates + pandoc is the dream combo. no need to learn a new syntax like typst or emacs org-mode.
If it works for you, great. Some people need the features Typst (or LaTex) provides.
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#43markdown + latex templates + pandoc is the dream combo. no need to learn a new syntax like typst or emacs org-mode.
Plus ad hoc markdown extensions, Lua plugins, ... For me it's Typst.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tl;dr it's because they don't want to neglect the other output formats PNG and SVG. For those they'd have to render the PDF, for which there is apparently no satisfactory rust package.
> no satisfactory rust package I'm seeing this delay lots of features in rust projects. For example helix the text editor hasn't gotten file watching (for the purposes of updating after external edits) for years now because of apparent problems with the file watching library in rust.
Typst's file watching seems to work excellent since 0.12, though.
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#45Is this a LaTeX killer yet?
I'm using it for pretty much all new document generation tasks that are targeted to PDF, and it's very low fuss. Takes under 2 seconds to generate a 1600 page planner PDF with embedded images on many pages. I'd suggest giving it a try, unless you need certain journal templates.
The library of journal templates in the Typst universe is growing day by day. A much bigger issue is some of these journals not yet accepting Typst submissions.
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#46After reading Laurenz's blog post on TeX vs Typst layout [1], it made me wonder: how hard would it be at this point for them to make Typst directly understand TeX, and let you insert chunks of TeX. It would make for a really nice upgrade path. Of course, being bug-for-bug compatible once people layer on tons of TeX packages seems like a losing game. But if most straightforward TeX stuff "just worked", it would be an…
There is a Typst package called MiTeX that supports at least some basic TeX input. [1] https://typst.app/universe/package/mitex
> There is a Typst package called MiTeX that supports at least some basic TeX input.
I can see that being useful for lots of people, but, as a migration path (as I understood your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106837 to suggest), I don't think it would work. I've worked with TeX for almost 30 years and used vim for about 20 years, and suspect that "supports … some basic TeX" is likely to have the same effect for me as something that emulates vim does on a master-level vimmer—falling into the uncanny valley that's somehow worse than a totally different thing.
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#47Is this a LaTeX killer yet?
Mostly. The inability to include pdf figures is an annoyance that forces a change in workflow compared to tex. That and needing to submit .tex files for journal publication.
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#48Has anyone used Typst for academic conferences/journals?
To me it’s sorta like CSS where the availability of templates is more important than the core language (at least for people lacking design abilities).
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#49Wow! They are really adding HTML support!
Typst is one of my favourite open source projects right now, mostly due to how useful it is even for non-technical users. I have converted most of my friends and their friends in my university to switch from latex / markdown / word to typst, mostly due to its ease of use, how nice does (even the default) output looks like and how powerful it is.
I am very happy that typst is still being developed and I am really surprised how many new features they add (for my use-cases it is pretty much done product:)).
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#50After reading Laurenz's blog post on TeX vs Typst layout [1], it made me wonder: how hard would it be at this point for them to make Typst directly understand TeX, and let you insert chunks of TeX. It would make for a really nice upgrade path. Of course, being bug-for-bug compatible once people layer on tons of TeX packages seems like a losing game. But if most straightforward TeX stuff "just worked", it would be an…
>let you insert chunks of TeX Honestly a better first step would be getting inserting another pdf plot to work, but seems hard https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/145
Did you try the MuchPDF package mentioned near the bottom of that discussion? It seems to do the job for what I tried.