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Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by JustFinishedBSG »

tcfhgj wrote: post #29
dev_hugepages wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typst is open source, so you can run it on your computer; it's available as a CLI and has integrations with multiples IDEs (most use tinymist). Using typst is better than subscribing and not using it IMO because you can already start creating content and advocating for it, while telling the team about bugs or pain points

you can use the cli, subscribe (to the pro features of the app) and not use the app (online editor) to provide a bit of financial support WHILE using Typst and create content

Exactly my plan yes :)

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by adamnemecek »

I used to use markdown with embedded LaTeX and pandoc for scripting. I hated the stack, it was really hard to write custom functions.

Since switching to typst my happiness with my writing tools improved dramatically.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by evertedsphere »

agentcoops wrote: post #34
optionalsquid wrote: post #5

There's usually some confusion about this, so to clarify in advance: - The Typst online editor is proprietary: https://typst.app - The Typst compiler/CLI is open source: https://github.com/typst/typst I hear that the online editor is quite good, but personally I've only ever used the CLI. I originally picked up Typst as yet another replacement for PowerPoint (replacing my use of Marp), but have since used it for a po…

I used LaTeX for decades and had convinced myself nothing could ever replace it. Just this month, however, I converted to Typst for a large project. Absolutely no regrets: undying respect to the great Knuth, but the experience with Typst is already simply better on almost every axis. I use TinyMist with vscode and the development experience is terrific. I was modifying templates within a day of picking it up, which—-…

famously knuth was trying to (and pretty much did) solve digital typesetting not create a nice piece of hci so this is all as it should be or at least as might be expected

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by tcfhgj »

k__ wrote: post #51

Is this like DocBook/ASCIIDoc?

I tried Asciidoc for a bit (as a replacement of Markdown, because I wanted/needed more than Markdown).

While asciidoc hasn't matched my expectations (went back to Markdown), Typst has.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by WillAdams »

agentcoops wrote: post #34
optionalsquid wrote: post #5

There's usually some confusion about this, so to clarify in advance: - The Typst online editor is proprietary: https://typst.app - The Typst compiler/CLI is open source: https://github.com/typst/typst I hear that the online editor is quite good, but personally I've only ever used the CLI. I originally picked up Typst as yet another replacement for PowerPoint (replacing my use of Marp), but have since used it for a po…

I used LaTeX for decades and had convinced myself nothing could ever replace it. Just this month, however, I converted to Typst for a large project. Absolutely no regrets: undying respect to the great Knuth, but the experience with Typst is already simply better on almost every axis. I use TinyMist with vscode and the development experience is terrific. I was modifying templates within a day of picking it up, which—-…

The two applications were developed on quite different computers and with quite different toolchains.

Interestingly, Knuth has stated that his development of Literate Programming:

http://literateprogramming.com/

was more important than TeX --- fortunately, his publishing _TeX: The Program_:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499934.Computers_Typeset...

has been very helpful to folks developing successors and add-ons and new versions, facilitating the creation of web2c and change files which made tools such as pdftex and omega and xetex and luatex possible).

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by hbn »

> alt: "Diagram with two rectangles. The first is labelled 'Tagged PDF'. An arrow points to the second, labelled 'Accessibility'"

Not trying to make any statement but I'd love to see how this level of alt text detail scales to a diagram that's more than a rectangle pointing to a rectangle

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by maxc01 »

Wondering how this compares to Emacs org mode, which support exports to PDF slides with beamer or plain PDF document, also support to export to lots of other format. It also allows running the embedded code and export the results. Of course embedding PDF is easy.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by pbronez »

Vallaaaris wrote: post #25
cbolton wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed... I wonder to what extent the author of hayro did this work specifically for Typst or if they would have done it anyway.

Author here! Resolving one of the most-requested Typst features was definitely a big motivation for me, but I wouldn't say this was the only reason. I've done a lot of previous work on PDF (see e.g. the krilla library, although also mostly in the context of Typst), so I was already pretty familiar with how PDF works. In addition to that, I also just finished writing my master's thesis about 2D rendering (also in Rust…

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