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Last I checked Typst can't emit HTML.
They do now, experimentally. The support is getting improved a lot currently.
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They do now, experimentally. The support is getting improved a lot currently.
It works really well, I've written three blog posts using typst. Post: https://ezb.io/thoughts/interaction_nets/lambda_calculus/202... Typst source: https://github.com/enricozb/enricozb.github.io/blob/master/t...
Thanks for sharing!
Since 70% of comments under each of these posts are always "why not LaTeX?!", I want to start by reaffirming: yes, I do want a modern Markdown-based typesetting system. There even is a place of several of them. It would be absolutely nice to replace LaTeX, simply because it's old trash with remarkably inconvenient syntax, so, yes, a system with full control over markup is desirable. And if it necessarily increases ve…
LaTeX is not "old trash". It's one of the best piece of software ever written. Just don't import bs in your document.
My first impression was this looks nothing like Markdown. It looks cool, but hardly resembles anything I've seen in Markdown before.
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LaTeX is not "old trash". It's one of the best piece of software ever written. Just don't import bs in your document.
I’d argue that Typst probably beats it on all levels. Have you ever seen a LaTeX document? (The question is rhetorical, of course you have) Just because it was the best thing before doesn’t mean it still is now. I’d say the only thing it still has going for it is momentum.
Tex/LaTeX are completely syntactically extensible. For example, a logician might want to use the software with any number of their notations, or a physicist drawing Feynmann diagrams, etc. I think at one point Lillypad used it for typesetting sheet music.
Edit: i found it! https://typst.app/docs/guides/guide-for-latex-users/#package...
I'm only half sarcastic here, I don't like them either. I have recently been using pandoc[1] to do the things they are talking about, I had added some stuff in perl using the Template Toolkit[2] to make HTML pages. My issue is that I have very different fugue states for writing vs. coding. Switching states breaks my flow so I've been trying to make the two modes as orthogonal as possible.
I'm curious if anyone has used something like this to go straight to PNG. My use case is that I have a surplus epaper display that can display pngs it fetches from the network and I've been forwarding it my todo list. Have been doing this with a LuaTeX flow but would like something a bit more seamless.
[1] Pandoc -- https://pandoc.org/
[2] Template Toolkit -- https://template-toolkit.org/
My FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1], takes a similar approach: Markdown -> XHTML -> TeX -> PDF. The software architecture shows how you can have processor chains: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/ima... I developed KeenWrite to help write a sci-fi novel where I can use variables for character names, places, etc. See the tutorials[2] for details. For anyone still using pandoc and shell scripts, m…
So far LaTex has been the only solution to allow binding shared sections into multiple document builds. These are for internal and customer facing information. Only binding duplication is in the revision overview sections pertaining to each document build.
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They do now, experimentally. The support is getting improved a lot currently.
It works really well, I've written three blog posts using typst. Post: https://ezb.io/thoughts/interaction_nets/lambda_calculus/202... Typst source: https://github.com/enricozb/enricozb.github.io/blob/master/t...
Would be interesting to see a compare and contrast between this and Typst, which has gotten a lot of attention recently. Kinda surprising that it isn't mentioned in their feature comparison matrix at all.
Also how do you implement things like different page numbering for front matter content and the main content? In general, the "simplicity" of markdown seems to be taking away a lot of granular control that people use LaTeX and Typst for.