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Re: Typst 0.14

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post #28

I'm super happy that Typst continues to chip away at LaTeX's dominance. Kudos to the team and contributors! This looks like a great release. Lossless embedding of PDFs seems like it would be useful in many scenarios. I'm surprised with how much better the character-level justified text actually looks. And I wasn't even aware that it supported exporting HTML. Typst—both the tool and the language—are more robust and en…

As long as Typst is on version 0.x,you should probably expect breaking changes. There is talk about changing even part of the parsing rules.

This is the risk of being an early adopter.

Once v1.0 is out, I hope it will stabilize for the long term.

Re: Typst 0.14

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I 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 better because you can use anchoring to match on the braces (like "%" in vim), which means navigating long item entries is much easier.

5. In latex you have the \document{...} where you can't specify macros so they need to be at the top, in Typst you can specify the macros close to where you need them. [I've been informed this is actually incorrect and Latex does allow you to specify macros anywhere]

6. It's easier to version control and diff, especially if you use semantic line breaks.

7. Changing page layout, margins, spacing between things, etc., footers with page counters, etc. just seems way easier to do.

8. Compiling with Typst is always one pass.

9. I'm not sure how this would compare with Latex but I'm starting law school in a month and I need to cite using AGLC4 which has a CSL (citationstyles.org) template supported by Typst; I have confirmed the CSL XML is correct but doesn't render properly in Typst. The workaround I found was to hand typeset my own citation and bibliography which sucks.

10. Most of what you need is built in to Typst and I've yet to need to import a package or template; even for the most basic documents with Latex you find you'll need to use many packages (such as fancyhdr for customised headers and footers).

11. Latex distributions can be a monstrosity, gigabytes in size like TexLive, and I acknowledge you can get slimmed down on-demand version such as Miktex. There's just one distribution of Typst and its pretty lean, although it might be nice to have multiple implementations in the future.

As for Typst 0.14 - I'm really happy about Accessible PDF feature and HTML export, will give each a whirl.

Re: Typst 0.14

#73
I want to express my gratitude to the typsr team and congratulate them on their release.

I got started with typst because I wanted to put my resume in a got repository, for no reason other than to learn git.

One day I want to write a crosswords document using typst. I don't know how yet because I can't get my tables to be squares but one day... (:

Re: Typst 0.14

#74
post #44
post #23

The killer features of LaTeX that does not let me go with typst (Although I like my typst generated resume) as an academic are. 1. Beamer, I create multiple slide decks per week and the out of the box setup that beamer provides with different styles and fonts for different needs are unmatched. The efforts to generate some of this on typst is not there yet. 2. Generating figures using tikz and be able to modify it on…

If you make a lot of slides with latex, then it is definitely worth it to try typst. I have a lot of presentations in latex for lectures and such things, with many animated tikz figures. But the compilation times are huge. At some point it is very time consuming to iterate. With typst, it compiles so fast that you don't have to fear to start a compilation. I finish my presentations much faster now. Cetz has been work…

One thing I'm missing when making slides with typst is the ability to show short videos or animated gifs. Although to be fair this isn't easy in beamer either.

Typst can actually include gifs, but they don't move for me. I have some hopes that perhaps one could make slides straight in html which could alleviate the issue.

Re: Typst 0.14

#75

I 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…

> It doesn't generate 5 bloody files when compiling

This was a question [0] I asked on stack overflow more than 15 years ago, and is to this day the most up votes I've gotten on SO. I still get notifications from it occasionally.

[0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11123/prevent-pdflat...

Re: Typst 0.14

#76
I 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 projects or stuff that wont involve working with professors or students who are not interested in learning new things during publication time.

Re: Typst 0.14

#77
post #41

Earlier 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—-…

Speaking of skill, learning a new language is always daunting, but I found that LLMs do a pretty good job of generating Typst code. I relied on that a lot for generating snippets of code, and learning about the language, which would've taken me more time otherwise. Although the Typst docs are pretty good, regardless.

Yep this is how I started my Typst journey. I was intimidated by Typst at first and wanted to do some mildly complicated documents that really isn't covered by the tutorial, so I had ChatGPT generate elements of the document I need. Now I'm a more self-sufficient being able to generate functions and use more complicated features of Typst and better exercise use of the docs.

Re: Typst 0.14

#78
post #28

I'm super happy that Typst continues to chip away at LaTeX's dominance. Kudos to the team and contributors! This looks like a great release. Lossless embedding of PDFs seems like it would be useful in many scenarios. I'm surprised with how much better the character-level justified text actually looks. And I wasn't even aware that it supported exporting HTML. Typst—both the tool and the language—are more robust and en…

I think by the time Typst has been around for as long as the half-life of a major LaTeX release it will be pretty stable. (Only 12 more years to go!)

Re: Typst 0.14

#79
post #33

There's usually some confusion about this, so to clarify in advance: - The Typst online editor is proprietary: https://typst.app - The Typst compiler/CLI is open source: https://github.com/typst/typst I hear that the online editor is quite good, but personally I've only ever used the CLI. I originally picked up Typst as yet another replacement for PowerPoint (replacing my use of Marp), but have since used it for a po…

This is a great example of the open core model done right. Have a fully-featured F/LOSS product, and build value-add commercial products and services on top of it. I've also only used the CLI tool, and didn't miss any features from it. The commercial product was never pushed or promoted to me. I personally have no need for it, and I'm only vaguely aware that it exists. But I'm sure that people who do need the friendl…

I don't really need the web version, but I pay for a yearly subscription to support development of Typst.

I do find the web version handy to share Typst examples and on occasion work on a document while syncing with private Github repository.

Re: Typst 0.14

#80
Related:

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393842 - Sept 2025 (384 comments)

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350322 - June 2025 (328 comments)

Typst 0.13 is out now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105444 - Feb 2025 (60 comments)

TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032697 - Feb 2025 (38 comments)

Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271078 - Nov 2024 (19 comments)

Typst 0.12 is just... better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888107 - Oct 2024 (4 comments)

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821361 - Oct 2024 (235 comments)

Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014941 - July 2024 (187 comments)

Typst – Compose Papers Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354422 - Nov 2023 (134 comments)

I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047224 - Oct 2023 (25 comments)

Typst: Finally a Solid LaTeX Alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835703 - May 2023 (3 comments)

Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250210 - March 2023 (146 comments)

Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590 - Jan 2023 (53 comments)

Typst: Compose Papers Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794 - July 2022 (30 comments)

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