Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source

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Post by reknih » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source
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Post by fictorial » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:34 PM UTC

Where did the code example for Fibonacci go in the typeset output?

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Post by laurmaedje » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

fictorial wrote: post #2

Where did the code example for Fibonacci go in the typeset output?

It's not a code example. It's Typst code that is used to calculate the fibonacci numbers that are displayed in the table.

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Post by DominikPeters » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:38 PM UTC

Is there a larger example output pdf available, to be able to compare to latex?

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Post by Falcondor » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

fictorial wrote: post #2

Where did the code example for Fibonacci go in the typeset output?

I think, if I am reading it correctly, that was not a code example, that was actual code. count and nums are variables being defined, and fib is a function. Then the function is being called to build the table (you can see str(fib(n)) in the second to last line)

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Post by miloignis » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

Very cool, thank you for open sourcing it! I'd like to try it out for documenting formal semantics of programming languages, and this FOSS release makes me comfortable doing so :D I found the paper describing the system very interesting when it was on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590 - Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]

previous discussion of website:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794 - Typst: Compose Papers Faster

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Post by miloignis » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:41 PM UTC

DominikPeters wrote: post #4

Is there a larger example output pdf available, to be able to compare to latex?

Yes, the thesis introducing the language is typeset in Typst: https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/laurmaedje/programmable-markup...

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Post by rrishi » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:43 PM UTC

It's written in Rust!

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Post by sho_hn » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:44 PM UTC

There's also Sile: https://sile-typesetter.org/

LaTeX (Well, LuaTeX) powers my E-ink newspaper (https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX), but I've been curious to use it as a vehicle to try out some of these alternatives and see if they can put together a non-trivial layout.

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Post by kingds » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

sho_hn wrote: post #9

There's also Sile: https://sile-typesetter.org/ LaTeX (Well, LuaTeX) powers my E-ink newspaper ( https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX ), but I've been curious to use it as a vehicle to try out some of these alternatives and see if they can put together a non-trivial layout.

coffee stain is incredible lol