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Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by Aaron2222 »

culi wrote: post #114
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…

isitreallyfoss.com did a break down on typst that goes more in-depth https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/typst/ It seems mostly fine except for this bit: > The compiler includes a package manager “Typst Universe” that may connect to servers owned and operated by Typst GmbH

So do most package managers...

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by paradox460 »

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…

Did you ever use beamer? I've done a few presentations with it, and while I wouldn't call it great, I preferred it to PowerPoint or keynote

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by vatsachakrvthy »

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…

As someone who generates mathematical content as their job

1. Touying

2. Cetz. Personally I think that LLMs are pretty bad at Tikz. I know you said you don't like GUI tools but Inkscape is great

3. github >>> overleaf

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by cycomanic »

lukax wrote: post #21
mastax wrote: post #17

> Meanwhile, in HTML and SVG export, PDFs are converted to an embedded SVG on-the-fly. And, finally, in PNG export and the web app preview, PDFs are rasterized. All of this PDF processing functionality lives right in the Typst compiler, with no system dependencies. This is only possible thanks to the amazing work of community member @LaurenzV, who created a new PDF processing library called hayro from scratch. The li…

And the hayro library is standalone and can easily be used outside of Typst. It only uses CPU and is pure Rust so it can also be used with WebAsembly. Link to demo below. https://github.com/LaurenzV/hayro https://laurenzv.github.io/hayro/

Holy sh*t, I've just dropped some pretty big pdfs (>400 pages), and it rendered almost instantaneously! This is really impressive.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by pseingatl »

constantcrying wrote: post #12
worldsayshi wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

These are different categories of software. Typst is a way to define a document. Headers, paragraphs, figures, equations, tables, etc. it is a direct competitor to LaTeX and maybe in some ways similar to Word, which provides a GUI for an XML defined document. Pandoc is a converter, which given a document in one document description language outputs a document in another document description language. What is exciting…

And, HTML leads to epubs since epub is essentially HTML.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by frabera »

decatur wrote: post #32

We used GitHub/Azure markdown plus Mermaid plus MathJax for financial model documentation. Beyond a certain complexity this really hurts. Now we use typst, both playground (which does not call home, so no document exfiltration) or the compiler. The compiler is super easy to install, as we already have the Rust build chain installed. Compared to Tex, the 40 odd years newer design of typst makes all the difference.

How did you integrate Mermaid in the new Typst workflow?

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by vrotaru »

nonethewiser wrote: post #93
imiric wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of skill, learning a new language is always daunting, but I found that LLMs do a pretty good job of generating Typst code. I relied on that a lot for generating snippets of code, and learning about the language, which would've taken me more time otherwise. Although the Typst docs are pretty good, regardless.

What LLMs? In my experience they do a terrible job with Typst. Very frequently ChatGPT and Gemini will produce code that doesnt work. Im not sure if it's using an older syntax or just hallucinating. Additionally, it's rarely able to fix it after I provide the error and even copy-past docs. Maybe I was just unlucky or you had better luck with another model. But I was very surprised to here this because Typst is my chi…

Here is my experience.

Claude did generated a rather good template for what I needed. It did not compile at first but I copy-pasted the errors and it fixed them.

Not all was good, though. It used literal bullets instead of `-` required for lists, but on whole the experience was positive.

It had taken me less time to fix the template than it would been taken to write it from scratch.

Something which Claude was good at. I throw him a crude ASCII "art" representation of what I want and get the right Typst code back.

Re: Typst 0.14

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Post by pabs3 »

mastax wrote: post #17

> Meanwhile, in HTML and SVG export, PDFs are converted to an embedded SVG on-the-fly. And, finally, in PNG export and the web app preview, PDFs are rasterized. All of this PDF processing functionality lives right in the Typst compiler, with no system dependencies. This is only possible thanks to the amazing work of community member @LaurenzV, who created a new PDF processing library called hayro from scratch. The li…

> is thus highly portable

Much less portable than the C ecosystem though.

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