good timing, I just started learning Typst this weekend!
Typst 0.15.0
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#32HTML support just keeps getting better and better! Mathematical equations are now automatically exported to MathML (thanks to @mkorje)[1] [1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/7436
Oh, that’s very exciting! That probably improves the path from Typst to EPUB considerably!
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#33This is awesome! I’ve been excited about the new bundle feature for months.
I use typst to format sheet music. Given a folder of PDFs, I currently have a script that generates a booklet of music for each person in the ensemble. Hopefully now I can just run a single typst file which outputs multiple PDFs.
Also using it to generate printable programs for concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com/
Re: Typst 0.15.0
#34I'm currently working on my fourth book produced using Typst, and it has been nothing but amazing. LLMs struggle with Typst a bit but other than that it has been an absolute joy to work with. I have a pretty good workflow set up for publishing these books, which are mostly collections of student essays. I use Pandoc to convert the students' Word documents into Typst, then unify the formatting, styles, and headers (mo…
I’ve been using Typst pretty heavily for the past few months after a few years of LaTeX, and I’ve had a similar experience. I do really love Typst though. It feels nimble, pleasant to work with and like a huge improvement over LaTeX in a lot of ways.
That said, LLMs have been noticeably better with LaTeX than with Typst for me. Typst works fine for the basics: loops, functions, small layout tweaks and that kind of thing. The problems mostly show up with more niche features.
What helped me was pointing the LLM to the current Typst docs, either the website or as they mention in their blog about the new update they also have a PDF export of the docs now (https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/download/v0.15.0/typ...). The docs are very good, and I suspect older training data plus Typst’s breaking changes are part of the problem.
One downside is that because I started using Typst with LLMs right away, I got a big head start but never became fully fluent in the language. I still find myself going back to the docs, the internet or an LLM more often than I’d like.
Re: Typst 0.15.0
#35Apparently Typst isn't supported by many journals, forcing LaTeX usage, anyone have experiences with this situation?
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#36Typest is amazing, Claude Code + Opus 4.8 knows how to use it, but I found that Claude by default is crap at designing even a reasonably formatted PDF. E.g. Claude sets the line height to be so small, all the lines are squished together, and a 1-pager PDF is half blank.
I see many folks saying you're producing beautiful PDFs. How are you dealing with design?
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#37As a non-developer who really only uses computers to write and produce documents, why would I use typst over org-mode or $your_fave_markdown + pandoc?
I tried using markdown+pandoc for my notes for a while, but I couldn't figure out even the most basic things, mostly because of the dozens of incompatible flavors; in no particular order:
- formatting math blocks is mostly not a thing; some formatters will straight up break the document depending on the flavor you use
- lsp
- live preview; you could use e.g. a neovim plugin for that, but it's built on top of mathjax
- pandoc isn't even a single flavor, as you have a bunch of feature flags and multiple ways to do the same thing
- rendering with pandoc is pretty slow even for a few pages of lecture notes (especially compared to typst)
- latex (required by pandoc) is huge, meanwhile typst binary was something like 50M last time I checked
- syntax highlighting: markdown treesitter grammar only supports the common extensions, e.g. the esoteric latex block variants break the entire document
I guess if I didn't need math rendering, the only major complaint I'd have is performance, but at that point .txt is enough
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#38This is awesome! I’ve been excited about the new bundle feature for months. I use typst to format sheet music. Given a folder of PDFs, I currently have a script that generates a booklet of music for each person in the ensemble. Hopefully now I can just run a single typst file which outputs multiple PDFs. Also using it to generate printable programs for concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com/
Cool project. I made something similar to programmatically generate my CV, but using LaTeX with a LuaLaTeX backend. It works, but it is really slow and has a lot of dependencies.
I’m seriously considering rewriting it in Typst at some point. It probably would not be that hard, and I’d likely get much faster builds with far fewer dependencies.
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#39I became a Typst user earlier this week, and it has been a delightful experience. It did not take me long at all to get up to speed. I have used LaTeX before, but that was over 20 years ago.
I’m doing some postgraduate where I need to submit a paper written in the two column IEEE style. I’m pretty sure I spent 40% of my time last time fighting with a Word template, rather than producing content.
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#40I've been using LaTeX for math for over a decade now. I'm pretty happy with it frankly, but there are major pain points in the compilation time and whenever it's time to interface with the language programmatically. Typst is, frankly, awesome in that regard. However, I really dislike the 'magic' in the math mode syntax, and I think dropping backslashes (more generally, a delineator) for commands was a mistake. Those…
I've heard this from other LaTeX veterans, but as someone that has never done any LaTeX himself and was scared by all those backslashes and braces, the simple C-like syntax is a blessing.