Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

Post by cryo32 » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #61

cryo32 wrote: post #38

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Not so sure. I work with a lot of people in academia who work with LaTeX. I haven't met anyone who knows Typst even exists. And the source material is usually just thrown in Word or LibreOffice. The problem is also momentum. Do you rewrite 30 years' of CTAN contributions, internal templates/styles and the toolchain off and start again or not? There's not much reason to. And you will hit the same brick walls doing so…

> I haven't met anyone who knows Typst even exists. It was released in 2023 and became polished enough to use like last year. Yeah, adoption takes time but the technology is significantly better. > The problem is also momentum. Do you rewrite 30 years' of CTAN contributions, internal templates/styles and the toolchain off and start again or not? With latex you have to rely on third party. With typst you can write it…

Post by cozzyd » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

flerovium114 wrote: post #36

red_admiral wrote: post #33

Always pleased to see Typst mentioned. TeX made a lot of choices that made sense at the time, but TeX macros and C #defines especially when nested and/or not properly bracketed to allow nesting are a mess when things go wrong.

In what setting are you mixing LaTeX and C code?

Post by fourthark » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

eikenberry wrote: post #67

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

Typst is the most important open source project of the last 5 years. I predict a future where markdown and latex are largely replaced by typst. And I couldn't be more excited. It is such a stepup from markdown and latex. Try it today if you are intrigued.

How is it an step-up from markdown? Markdown (w/o any embedded html) is a simple text formatting that lets you read it as a plain text file with some minor formatting when rendered. Typst source files are not human readable in the same way and would be terrible at it. Typst is great when you need typesetting, but if you just want plain text, readable files it isn't it. E.g. markdown for notes, typst for papers.

Post by adamnemecek » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

cozzyd wrote: post #74

k2enemy wrote: post #54

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I'm in academia and used to use LaTeX for everything, and have switched almost 100% to typst. Not many of my colleagues are aware of typst but a few use it. I think there is hope though. Grad students are slowly picking it up, and they are the future of academia. I've seen similar transitions away from Fortran and Matlab as grad students embrace different tools than what their advisors use.

Until the arxiv supports it, what's the point?

Post by josephg » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 3:19 AM UTC

applicative wrote: post #50

cycomanic wrote: post #32

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I'm not sure what you mean. Markdown compared to typst or latex is extremely limited and using it for books or academic papers is very niche. I certainly would (and have for all my previous publications) prefer typst or latex over markdown. I also don't understand your point about not permitting typesetting during writing. Latex and text are the prime examples of separating writing from typesetting.

It isn't niche. I'm an academic writer and there are thousands like me. Like all typst commentators on this site, you have literally just made something up. As for books, you could hardly be more wrong -- /thousands/ of self-published epubs on Amazon are written in absolutely nothing but markdown of one of the specialized varieties. The familiar markdown parsers know how to write out an epub. Self-publishing writers…