I have been using pandoc to convert markdown files to pdfs, and keep them in a git repo. Looking at typst, I think it can be a better replacement.
Typst 0.14
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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—-…
100% agree. With tex it feels like when you use a package or template, you're stuck with every choice it made because changing it yourself is just too daunting. With Typst I feel confident that I can go in and muck with whatever I don't like. It's a really refreshing feeling.
Although this is objectively an advantage, it means I've spent just as much of my time mucking about with customisation in Typst, as I have in LaTeX :p
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#163When I did my bachelor’s, I wrote every assignment and my thesis in LaTeX—and I absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I swore I’d never touch MS Word again.
Now I’m doing my master’s, and once again, I’m writing everything, assignments and thesis, in Typst. And boy, do I love Typst. I only had to spend a fraction of the time tweaking it to get exactly what I needed. Most things just work right out of the box. The only “bad” thing, in my opinion, is that Typst isn’t quite as feature-rich as LaTeX.
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When I compile LaTeX files, I use tectonic¹ which automatically download dependencies, compiles in one pass, and hides temporary files. But the regulars users of LaTeX I know all use a web interface — IIRC, it's an instance of Overleaf² installed by their university, with real-time rendering. So when I read your list, I had these tools in mind, and the only items that made sense to me were: 2. (minor compared to Over…
> 2. (minor compared to Overleaf) typst compiles faster. I would argue that this isn't minor. At least in my opinion, it makes a big difference. Overleaf, already 3 pages into a document, with a couple of TikZ figures, was getting slow, as in multiple seconds wait for each save. Typst, on the other hand (Tinymist in VS Code) is really realtime. Text updating within some tens of milliseconds, and figures included in f…
I have laptop with a good-ish CPU that is only a few years old, and on page 3 tinymist is already starting to struggle. There is a noticeable input delay between me pressing a key on the keyboard, and the key getting typed & the preview updating. I think it's more of a tinymist issue though, as it has no debouncing and apparently also runs the preview updates on the same thread as vscode's input handling.
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#165I've started using typst in a recent side project. An online article to PDF converter for e-Readers (reMarkable in my case): https://klartext.press/. It works like a charm. Blazing fast, beautifully typeset documents.
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#166I 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…
Can I convert LaTeX templates to Typst and vice versa? Many journals have LaTeX templates and demand LaTeX.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 2. (minor compared to Overleaf) typst compiles faster. I would argue that this isn't minor. At least in my opinion, it makes a big difference. Overleaf, already 3 pages into a document, with a couple of TikZ figures, was getting slow, as in multiple seconds wait for each save. Typst, on the other hand (Tinymist in VS Code) is really realtime. Text updating within some tens of milliseconds, and figures included in f…
I have laptop with a good-ish CPU that is only a few years old, and on page 3 tinymist is already starting to struggle. There is a noticeable input delay between me pressing a key on the keyboard, and the key getting typed & the preview updating. I think it's more of a tinymist issue though, as it has no debouncing and apparently also runs the preview updates on the same thread as vscode's input handling.
Interesting. I have not experienced that, except when trying out the pre-release version of tinymist, and did some messy multiple view+cropping into a big pdf (testing out the new pdf-image stuff.) I chalked it up to it being new and beta.
Admittedly, I have still not created large documents in Typst.
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#168Yeah but can it run doom
Actually, very nearly so: https://typst.app/universe/package/soviet-matrix/
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The first link for Literate Programming gives me a certificate warning and an off putting site for some likely malware or something? This appears to be a working link: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/literate-programm...
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#170I 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…
> Typst is incredible for single-person or a trio of people, but the web experience is not there yet for collaboration How did collaborate in the past on LaTeX publications?
Not OP, but likely overleaf.