Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Typst 0.14

typst.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 171 posts

Re: Typst 0.14

#121

Post by optionalsquid »

jadbox wrote: post #98
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 LOVE Marp! Why do you like Typst more than Marp for presentations?

I much preferred Marp to PowerPoint, but there were several parts of it I wasn't fond of:

- Using CSS for formatting resulted in a lot of one-off rules, and was a lot noisier and less readable than the equivalent in Typst.

- The use of CSS for formatting also meant that the Marp compiler couldn't catch most of my silly mistakes. With Typst the compiler will catch those mistakes.

- Using a plugin to selectively highlight lines required writing a custom "engine" in JS, which was a pain to get working. Using a package in Typst is extremely simple.

- And I had to use npm to install the plugin in the first place. Typst comes with a package manager built-in.

- Generating PDFs required that I installed Chrome/Chromium. Typst does that out of the box.

The only place, that I can think of, where Marp is ahead of Typst, is with regards to generating HTML based presentations. But that probably won't be the case forever, and I personally always use PDFs for the final presentation, since that means that a lot less can go wrong. Especially so if I am not using my own PC when giving the presentation

Re: Typst 0.14

#122

Post by optionalsquid »

setopt wrote: post #102
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 originally picked up Typst as yet another replacement for PowerPoint I’ve also mainly used it for slides so far. Can recommend Slydst for that.

I've been using touying so far. It took some effort, since I was learning Typst at the same time, but I was able to convert our "official" PowerPoint template to a toying template that I am quite happy with.

From what I can tell, Slydst seems intended for more minimalist slides. But it looks nice, so I'll have to keep it in mind for cases where I don't need the above template

Re: Typst 0.14

#123

Post by __mharrison__ »

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…

Converted to Typst last year from LaTeX for book authoring, invoices, and slides (was using a hand-rolled rst2ppt tool for slides). Happy to never touch LaTeX again. Typst is that good.

Re: Typst 0.14

#124

Post by __mharrison__ »

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…

It really is so much better than LaTeX. I'm only saying this because I really enjoy using it. LaTeX was always tweak something, wait for the compile, and pray that it works, without having any clue about what was happening.

Re: Typst 0.14

#125

Post by __mharrison__ »

elashri wrote: post #23

The killer features of LaTeX that does not let me go with typst (Although I like my typst generated resume) as an academic are. 1. Beamer, I create multiple slide decks per week and the out of the box setup that beamer provides with different styles and fonts for different needs are unmatched. The efforts to generate some of this on typst is not there yet. 2. Generating figures using tikz and be able to modify it on…

It was easy for me to roll my own slideshow tool in Typst. I would have never attempted this in LaTeX.

Can't respond to 2 or 3. Used tikz once. I wish there were a de facto programmatic drawing tool (I usually resort to graphviz or matplotlib), but there are a bunch of 80% solutions.

Re: Typst 0.14

#126

Post by MerrimanInd »

After over a decade of occasionally updating that one ancient .docx file, I recently rebuilt my CV/resume using typst and it's been a really fun project! My resume is now a private repo with my personal, career, and styling data stored in TOML files. Then I can pull any interesting typst resume templates, populate the information from the TOML files by looping over arrays of jobs/projects, and populate it into the doc template. It's absolutely overkill but it was a fun project and I really enjoyed working with typst. Didn't even do a tutorial, just threw myself into the language and assumed it would be intuitive enough with some examples and it absolutely is.

Re: Typst 0.14

#127

Post by __mharrison__ »

worldsayshi wrote: post #6
constantcrying wrote: post #4

Really great work. Typst continues to impress. The eventual goal of HTML and PDF both as first class output will be a such a great improvement for scientific publishing. For everyone who is using LaTeX and hasn't tried yet, give it a try. It is actually surprisingly featurefull and surpasses LaTeX in usability by a huge margin.

It sounds like it takes up a similar niche as PanDoc. Is there any particular feature that Typst is better at or is it mostly about ease of use? (I remember Pandoc to be quite nice to use for simple use cases while also allowing the full set of latex stuff when needed) https://pandoc.org/

I use pandoc to convert markdown to physical books (with typst) and ebooks (epub) for my self-publishing empire.

Re: Typst 0.14

#128

Post by l9o »

qjh wrote: post #113

I really wish I could use Typst, but to be honest, it doesn't work with any journal I know of, let alone arXiv. It feels like a chicken-and-egg problem to me; I can't see most people who use LaTeX moving over unless journals and preprint servers adopt it, and I can't see journals or preprint servers adopting it unless people move over. Still, it's early days, I and wish the community good luck and I genuinely hope th…

Yeah, from discussing this with friends in academia it seems like this is the biggest hurdle at the moment. Someone on Reddit reached out to arXiv [0] and their response was very negative towards it, which seems unfortunate:

> At this point, we’re more likely to add support for .docx than a markdown language.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/typst/comments/1ddlgvg/arxiv_just_a...

Re: Typst 0.14

#129

Post by optionalsquid »

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #107
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…

How do you translate a bit more visually complex presentation to Typst? Should I create my iconography in SVG and try to position those?

What do you mean by a "more visually complex presentation"? Typst has some built in support for drawing shapes [1], but if you need more complex figures then cetz is also an option [2].

But if you mean animations (including animated transitions), then I do not believe that it is possible in Typst, since the output it outputs PDFs. I also do not believe that it is possible to embed multimedia in a document.

[1] https://typst.app/docs/reference/visualize/

[2] https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz/

Re: Typst 0.14

#130

Post by qjh »

l9o wrote: post #128
qjh wrote: post #113

I really wish I could use Typst, but to be honest, it doesn't work with any journal I know of, let alone arXiv. It feels like a chicken-and-egg problem to me; I can't see most people who use LaTeX moving over unless journals and preprint servers adopt it, and I can't see journals or preprint servers adopting it unless people move over. Still, it's early days, I and wish the community good luck and I genuinely hope th…

Yeah, from discussing this with friends in academia it seems like this is the biggest hurdle at the moment. Someone on Reddit reached out to arXiv [0] and their response was very negative towards it, which seems unfortunate: > At this point, we’re more likely to add support for .docx than a markdown language. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/typst/comments/1ddlgvg/arxiv_just_a...

I've seen that too, yeah. It's unfortunate, but also completely reasonable; docx is actually surprisingly common outside of physics, maths, and CS, and it is almost surprising that it's not supported since OOXML an open format now.
Post reply on HN