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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by imtringued »

gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #205
kzrdude wrote: post #162

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The free plan on overleaf only allows collaboration between 2 people. If you have 3 students in your report assignment then you can't use overleaf for free. That sounds like a sign that overleaf is struggling, that they had to make that change. And Typst is more generous there, you can collaborate 3 people with no problem.

> The free plan on overleaf only allows collaboration between 2 people. If you have 3 students in your report assignment then you can't use overleaf for free. Yup. You used to be able to share projects with unlimited people via link sharing, but they annoyingly got rid of that last year [0]. And Overleaf's cheapest plan is still more expensive than a basic VPS, so it's actually cheaper to self-host (which is what I'm…

Universities pay for Overleaf subscriptions so no student has to spend a dime.

Some people can't grasp that Overleaf may be a really good product that has to compete with hundreds of both free and fully open source alternatives.

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by imtringued »

stefanos82 wrote: post #275

I keep an eye on https://github.com/let-def/texpresso which is a live rendering and error reporting for LaTeX; just watch the videos that are in README and you will get amazed!

Please tell the setzer developers about this: https://github.com/cvfosammmm/Setzer/

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by imtringued »

gf000 wrote: post #204
yusina wrote: post #176

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> Worse, they spend the time while writing, while latex allows for separation of tasks, I theory, yes. And that's also what I'm usually trying to do. What I have observed though with Latex folks is that they type 3 words and then look at the preview or re-compile to see if it looks good.

I mean, as with code, the actual typing is not really the bottleneck. I also basically read the right pane rendered output, but mostly as a "reading out what I've written and evaluating whether it sounds good" most of the time, not really messing with layouting (especially that LaTeX and Typst does that very well, I can be reasonably sure that my paragraphs will have decent hypens and such).

I have written some documents for which I have yet to even look at the 40+ pages produced in the PDF as output. I'll admit thought that I wasted some time finding a nice template before starting to write.

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by cbolton »

Maken wrote: post #296
gsinclair wrote: post #254

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I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.

You will end up with just a different escape character.

No it really is much lighter, see my examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by alok-g »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #290

I just want a a very simple Markdown like syntax to make a very basic resume with just few features that are not in Md: - custom spacing - horizontal/vertical (after list dots/numbers etc as well) - justifying the text - custom margins And for that something like this is an overkill. Less than Tex but still an overkill. Hell, I can do with a flavoured markdown if it supports this.

+1. Having to write HTML for what should be basics is a non-starter for many. I can't, for examole, recommend Markdown to a lawyer friend, and the formatting that courts in my country mandate cannot ve done in Markdown.

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by crossroadsguy »

alok-g wrote: post #335
crossroadsguy wrote: post #290

I just want a a very simple Markdown like syntax to make a very basic resume with just few features that are not in Md: - custom spacing - horizontal/vertical (after list dots/numbers etc as well) - justifying the text - custom margins And for that something like this is an overkill. Less than Tex but still an overkill. Hell, I can do with a flavoured markdown if it supports this.

+1. Having to write HTML for what should be basics is a non-starter for many. I can't, for examole, recommend Markdown to a lawyer friend, and the formatting that courts in my country mandate cannot ve done in Markdown.

I will see if there’s some app that supports https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/8-pandocs-markdown.html | https://www.speakon.org.uk/MarkupBinder/beta/docs/Markdown/P...

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by _bent »

gsinclair wrote: post #254
PatronBernard wrote: post #231

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I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on earth would they change it?

I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.

considering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful

Re: I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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Post by xiaohanyu »

One thing that LaTeX still win is CJK support, typst is still very young and lacks professional support for non-latin languages: https://blog.ppresume.com/posts/on-typesetting-engines#concl...

I admit that typst is quite promising and given enough time, its adoption will increase quite a lot.

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