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Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use

Typst is awesome, in particular if you want to generate documents programmatically.

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[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 days ago

This is a great project. The way it handles mixing markup and code is on point. Also, for drawing its CeTZ is so much nicer than TiKZ, the LaTeX equivalent. I made some great graphics with it for a seminar presentation and paper that I couldn’t have done anywhere near as easily with LaTeX. (The presentation slides I made entirely with Typst, the paper had a LaTeX template that I didn’t feel like remaking because it was huge so I just embedded the graphics I made with Typst)

[-] wisha@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

There are a few typst packages for making presentation slides. Which one did you use?

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

Polylux, with a custom theme. Tbh, I wasn't aware there were others until now!

[-] biber@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago

Using typst since some months - way saner than latex

[-] zabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Do you mind sharing your experience? What kind of documents have you been writing and how easy has it been to adopt? Any frustrations or issues?

[-] biber@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

I use typst.app mostly, but used typst for formulas in quarto and in Makie.jl for combining scientific figures with complex formulas.I wrote some smaller documents and one paper collaboratively as of yet. Speed is amazing, error messages are interpretable.

The git integration works ok, once we had an issue with a weird branch problem but more on our side, but there is no way to fix it from typst.app right now.

What is missing is a suggestion-feature, mimicking track changes in word. E.g. overleaf has this (but not super nice imho).

Coming from a hacky-latex experience (not a latex dev in any way) of >10 years, the switch was immediate and easy. All that arcane knowledge I can now forget, figure, captions etc. just work.

I don't have experience with super crazy long formulas, not a mathematician.

But yeah, I was super sceptical at first - I mean, the promise to replace latex is a bit insane. But for my stuff, it just works.

Just try it at typst.app, maybe you don't even need to register, I don't remember.

[-] zabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Woah, that sounds insanely promising. Thanks for sharing!

[-] pohart@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

I haven't used latex in 20+ years, so it's not real fresh for me but this looks like a great alternative.

[-] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I didn't know about this project, it looks promissing.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Looks great.

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