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My concern would be that this seems like such a niche market that only charging $8/month, raises long-term viability concerns. Last thing you want to do is use a platform that goes defunct. https://typst.app/pricing/
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Both have been “on the roadmap” from day 1, with little progress. Many open source projects put “we should make our system accessible to disabled vision issues” on the roadmap, depressingly few projects then actually do it. Even latex, which in academic circles is famous for not having html output, nowadays produces more accessible output than typist.
You are right that it's been on the roadmap for a while, however, it's definitely very high on their priority list. The recent update (v0.12) contained a lot of necessary internal refactorings of the layout engine, and they've mentioned on the Discord that after v0.12, they will start work on HTML output.
However, it’s also been a “top priority” since basically the first release.
I like Typst, but I've had a couple issues so far: 1. The line spacing. It's not defined as baseline to baseline, but as the space inbetween two lines of text. Very difficult for an assignment with a prescribed line height since it usually refers to a baseline-baseline measure. 2. While having multiple columns is really easy, adding floating elements for the text to wrap around seems not possible. There's a reason al…
https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/4224 This issue and others like it are dealbreakers for me. There are numerous related issues, but the developers are stubbornly sticking to their interpretation—using the older definition of leading from the days of metal type, rather than the more modern concept of line-spacing. No other software or modern typesetting system I know of uses this approach anymore. This is particu…
I've been looking into it. It's `blazingly fast` (aside from the rust joke, it really is way faster than latex), the syntax is more "modern", consistent, etc. The main problem is the popularity. It just does not have enough packages, at least for my use case. I mainly do a lot of equations (simple math), and a loooot of tikz (forest, circuitikz, pgfplots, etc.) [ https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/escuela/-/tree/main/5to?re…
> Besides the typst packages, it also lacks the editor packages. I am an emacs user… The typst editor plugin for vscode is pretty great. It gives you a split view of source & pdf, and you can cmd+click on either side to scroll to the corresponding source / rendered output. It also does things like give you autocomplete on fields from externally referenced json data. Obviously, that might be no help if you’re married…
Just to say, the most important features:
Well, the feature you mentioned of clicking the PDF and redirecting to the source.
Preview in the same buffer (window) as the code
It uses other regexps to recognize the enabled packages, and then adds the package's macros and environments to its list, so with a command you can open an environment or macro, and it recognizes which packages you are using, if you are in a math environment, etc. and shows only the ones you can use in the context. It's like a super-intelligent set of macros.
AucTex has also great support for bibtex/biblatex, and glossary/glossaries, both for using the macros and for compiling.
Automatic, intelligent, labeling.
And a lot more (altough this is probably the biggest latex package, there are a lot of other smaller packages that are also extremely useful) . Maybe it's not the hardest package to do, but it needs a lot of people and time to replicate, basically what typst is also lacking, for now.
I've been looking into it. It's `blazingly fast` (aside from the rust joke, it really is way faster than latex), the syntax is more "modern", consistent, etc. The main problem is the popularity. It just does not have enough packages, at least for my use case. I mainly do a lot of equations (simple math), and a loooot of tikz (forest, circuitikz, pgfplots, etc.) [ https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/escuela/-/tree/main/5to?re…
> I am an emacs user insert joke here In my totally anecdotal experience the intersection between proficient LaTeX users and emacs users is pretty large. So having good emacs support would be a big selling point. My experience on the other hand is also those people never complain about LaTeX, so they're probably not the target for a new typesetting system.
Typst is a lot of fun and lets you do some really cool stuff. However! In the process of doing that cool stuff, you may need to debug things and that’s when it’s no longer fun. There is no way to print anything out to console and debug anything about what is going on. People have asked for it for over a year now and the authors have refused/ignored their requests. I would be using it a lot more except for this. https…
Hey, I'm one of the Typst devs and author of the issue. The reason there is no logging yet is because we want to get it _right_ rather than landing a permanent temporary solution. And there were simply more urgent things to do so far. Also note that if you use an LSP or the web app, you can inspect the live values in your code simply by hovering over them.
I've been looking into it. It's `blazingly fast` (aside from the rust joke, it really is way faster than latex), the syntax is more "modern", consistent, etc. The main problem is the popularity. It just does not have enough packages, at least for my use case. I mainly do a lot of equations (simple math), and a loooot of tikz (forest, circuitikz, pgfplots, etc.) [ https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/escuela/-/tree/main/5to?re…
> I use AucTeX, which is a really great, and gigant package to edit latex (+cdlatex) This is tangential, but have you any quick tips for someone looking to get started with AucTeX? I'm a comfortable Emacser who has started to occasionally think of some document I'd like to do in LaTeX (some maths questions for a student, or an overview of some topic). I've looked at AucTeX once or twice, and ran away thinking, oh, I'…
(use-package auctex
:ensure (auctex :pre-build (("./autogen.sh")
("./configure" "--without-texmf-dir" "--with-lispdir=.")
("make")))
:demand
:mode (("\\.tex\\'" . LaTeX-mode)
("\\.tex\\.erb\\'" . LaTeX-mode)
("\\.etx\\'" . LaTeX-mode))
:config
(with-eval-after-load 'preview
(dolist (env '("tikzpicture" "circuitikz")) ;; I want to preview tikzpictures and icrcuitikz
(add-to-list 'preview-default-preamble
(concat "\\PreviewEnvironment{" env "}") t))
(add-to-list 'preview-inner-environments "axis") ;; And axis (pgfplots)
(set-face-attribute 'preview-reference-face nil
:foreground "black"
:background "white")))
;; Tikz previews look better with a white background, if you don't use it, it's way cooler to preview latex with a "trasparent" backgroundAnd then the usage:
Just continue using latex as you are, and then try to incorporate auctex commands. The most useful being =latex-environment= and =latex-section= + the previews. So don't write \begin{env}... nor \section{sec}, and instead use C-c C-e and C-c C-s (They seem hard, but they aren't) For the previews, use C-c C-p ... (there are a lot of options there, using which-key you can see them) And for compiling use C-c C-c. I recommend reading https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch... and if you have the time, read bits of the manual
(Sorry, I can't get the code to display right. goto https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/emacs-config/-/blob/master/emacs... and search for the latex heading)
I've moved all of my LaTeX-based content creation to Typst. It's: - Fast—Compiling my books would take around 1 minute (I often had to compile twice due to indexing). With Typst, it takes less than 5 seconds. - Easy to write—I actually don't write it, I wrote a bunch of Pandoc plugins to tweak the output from Pandoc (I write all my books in Jupyter these days, so lots of markdown). - Easy to read—I've used LaTeX for…
Regarding math stuff and graphics/diagrams, it works well too. What I enjoy about Typst is the fact that the code is easy to write and read. Even code from some third-party library or template is easy to understand. There is a world of difference between this and LaTeX, which abstracts over TeX, and whose inner workings remain obscure even to experienced developers having used LaTeX over decades for tens of documents…
Apologies if this is a stupid question, I've never used typst.
I've been looking into it. It's `blazingly fast` (aside from the rust joke, it really is way faster than latex), the syntax is more "modern", consistent, etc. The main problem is the popularity. It just does not have enough packages, at least for my use case. I mainly do a lot of equations (simple math), and a loooot of tikz (forest, circuitikz, pgfplots, etc.) [ https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/escuela/-/tree/main/5to?re…
Writing Typst in Emacs is pretty easy with this setup. https://codeberg.org/meow_king/typst-ts-mode/wiki/ https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/tinymist/tree/main/editors...
I've been looking into it. It's `blazingly fast` (aside from the rust joke, it really is way faster than latex), the syntax is more "modern", consistent, etc. The main problem is the popularity. It just does not have enough packages, at least for my use case. I mainly do a lot of equations (simple math), and a loooot of tikz (forest, circuitikz, pgfplots, etc.) [ https://gitlab.com/vslavkin/escuela/-/tree/main/5to?re…
I have a similar "user profile" and find typst a much better experience. It's true CeTZ is not as mature, but it's much easier to extend where it's missing functionality (because you have a nice, normal scripting language to work with instead of a macro mess). But math is the reason I smile every morning when I open my .typ files. It's so clean and readable, and a pleasure to write, compared to LaTeX. It's also not a…
However, thinking about it, it's not like anyone other than me cares about how clean my circuits are. They are high school notes, and the rest of my classmates are doing it on paper, but I haven't found a good alternative. One that probably isn't as clean as circuitikz, but easier, faster and easy to integrate to latex/typst