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I've recently thought about if there is not an easier to learn alternative to #LaTeX...and maybe even in #Rust!? My inner voice: Come on, you are a dreamer! Well...sometimes dreams come true: #Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. It is in beta and open source: 21 comments
@musicmatze @janriemer I’d recently starting moving some #obsidian Longform docs to use Markdown->Sile->PDF - this looks much nicer tho. I wonder if this could all be wrapped in in a WASM build Obsidian plugin. @musicmatze Very cool to hear! 👍 Yeah, Markdown is pretty good, but it's just _too_ simple. Yes, looking forward to typst progression as well. I think this thing will age like fine wine. 🍷 🙂  @janriemer Very interesting! Given TeX had a 40+ year start and was implemented by Don Knuth, I suspect it will be a little while before Typst overtakes it in terms of features, quality of output (esp. fonts), and adoption. OTOH maybe Typst won't eat your hard drive. @underlap Yes, you are right - I mean, what an undertaking, isn't it!? Typst developers are saying that they have been working on this for 4 years now. I can't imagine how much work it takes to build such a thing. Very impressive! 🎩 > OTOH maybe Typst won't eat your hard drive. 😅 @janriemer @musicmatze NICE! I had been looking at/playing with Sile recently which is all Lua based. And syntactically similar to #LaTeX - but this looks awesome. @janriemer Came across it awhile ago - have only toyed with it off and on tho. Really liking the look of Typst tho. That, and it being rust ;-) @janriemer I just had a thought post lunch, Typst reminds me a lot of Racket’s Scribble doc language (https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/) - especially with the way there’s embedded code/scripting in the markup. @talios Oh, Scribble looks really interesting. I've never heard of it before. Embedded code/scripting sounds powerful. Thank you for sharing! 💗 @janriemer Does typest support footnotes currently? Didn’t spot it (or something similar under a different name) in the docs at all. @janriemer Saw that in the GH discussions - I’m enjoying typest so far - mind you, only played with some small things so far.  @janriemer does typst.app handle vertically aligned, right to left orthographic systems (e.g. Chinese, Japanese)? LaTeX does not. For that, you need something such as UpLaTeX. @byterhymer Good question. I don't know. Disclaimer: this is _not_ my project (someone else has made it look like it was). Sorry, if it has come across that way. I've just recently thought about exactly such thing. @janriemer No worries! I have a particular interest in CJKV (Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese, also the title of a book by Ken Lunde, an expert in such subject matter) typesetting since Japanese is my second language. I looked over typst's documentation, they do support right to left (e.g. for Hebrew) but not vertical alignment as far as I could find in their reference materials. So, not too useful for my field of interest. Thankfully, UpLaTeX is increasingly mature. @janriemer I thought it looked nice too but who only wants to go to pdf these days? @janriemer Just found your toot! using #LaTeX ( #pdfLaTeX and #LuaLaTeX ) for more than two decades sometimes with more and sometimes with less intensity. I appreciate that hard work done in the past years to develop #LaTeX and I see the hard work on themes like #ConTeXt or #LaTeX3 or tagged #pdf by so many hard developing people. And then I found some weeks ago the not so new #HiTeX by Martin Ruckert. |
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@janriemer a friend just replaced their custom markdown+pandoc setup with typst and likes it better already!
I am looking forward to see typst progress!