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Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by vhartman »

laughingcurve wrote: post #76

I love typst and I tried to use it recently when shipping publications to EMNLP, AAAI, and NeurIPS. While there were a lot of upsides to it, things got very bad when the teams grew beyond just a few people. Typst is incredible for single-person or a trio of people, but the web experience is not there yet for collaboration. I’m really hoping for typst to continue and I plan to use it whenever I can for smaller project…

How did you deal with the usually supplied templates that you get for TeX? Did you just try to imitate as best as possible?

(I wanted to look at this at some point for replacing latex for submissions to IEEE confs/corl etc)

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Post by lava_pidgeon »

Living in a Berlin you encounter founder and CS people on funny occasions. So after starting using Typst I met one founder in an university dance course. Every time Typst is mentioned on HN, I've to recall that dance course.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by commandersaki »

JustFinishedBSG wrote: post #7

I think I'm going to subscribe without any intention of using the app just as a "financing" donation. I love, and hate, LaTeX and the idea of a LaTeX successor / alternative is incredibly appealing. And the fact that they are aware that microtypography IS important and that they are working on it is a huge huge plus.

I have made direct donations and I now just support financially by paying for a subscription to the web app.

I find myself switching between cli and web app a little more; the web app seems nice to experiment, share experiments especially when you need to demonstrate an issue when getting support, and has good enough git(hub) integration.

I would like Typst to support bounties, because I would throw a bit more towards HTML support.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by 1313ed01 »

constantcrying wrote: post #20
1313ed01 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PanDoc has its own version of Markdown that (more or less?) maps 1:1 to the intermediate representation in PanDoc, plus allows embedding other formats when necessary, or conditionally include some content only for some output formats. It's a great format to use for editing, since it converts so well to all the other formats (including Typst?). https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown

>PanDoc has its own version of Markdown that (more or less?) maps 1:1 to the intermediate representation in PanDoc Which is bad if you want a complex document, since the intermediate representation of pandoc can not represent all typst features. Also, I do not understand what your argument is. Pandoc and typst are not competing, they are different pieces of software with different goals. Pandocs markdown is also not…

I agree they are not competing at all, and I will definitely consider Typst as an alternative to LaTeX, which to me is one of the output formats I use in PanDoc, and I might end up using Typst instead of LaTeX as an intermediate format when generating PDFs. I have not had to fall back to write LaTeX in several years and tend to get away with at most a few lines of inlined LaTeX in my Markdown files, and I expect it will be possible to inline some Typst code if necessary as well. Happy with PanDoc's Lua filters when I need to script something.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by ivape »

lava_pidgeon wrote: post #82

Living in a Berlin you encounter founder and CS people on funny occasions. So after starting using Typst I met one founder in an university dance course. Every time Typst is mentioned on HN, I've to recall that dance course.

Dude was definitely marketing Typist at the dance course. That's hustle.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by weinzierl »

commandersaki wrote: post #72

I write this in pretty much every Typst thread. Here are some notes I wrote when I started out with typst when comparing with LaTeX and some recent additions: 1. It doesn't generate 5 bloody files when compiling. 2. Compiling is instant. 3. Diagnostics are way easier to understand (sort of like Rust compiler suggestion style). 4. List items can be either - item1 - item2, etc. or [item1], [item2]. The latter is way be…

12. It isn't a ticking time bomb with untrusted input.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by default-user »

WillAdams wrote: post #63

Anyone using this for Literate Programming? A quick search found: https://github.com/litProgTypst/ (which I'm mystified by) and https://github.com/denkspuren/typst_programming (which hasn't been updated in two years) Not seeing anything specific at: https://typst.app/docs/reference/scripting I need to re-write my current project https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview again --- maybe this would be a good fit? The u…

Would https://quarto.org/ fit the bill?

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by kzrdude »

hbn wrote: post #57

> 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

I think a simpler text would be better and less tedious for anyone in the document's audience, something along the lines of "box 'Tagged PDF' to box 'Accessibility'"
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