oneshot VS typst

The adventures automatically generate a random creature, so you can put down \goblin and a random goblin appears.

Surely that's defined in Adventures as much as the core book, no?

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the masochism of latex is becoming increasingly irrelevant with every typst [1] release. no going back once you experience realtime rendering of your document, and support in VS Code is stellar IMO.

[1] http://typst.app

I thought we were talking about justification, there it is using it: https://github.com/typst/typst/discussions/626

If I weren't on mobile I'd link you to the line in the source code. Just search the repo for Knuth-Plass.

For reference, this blog post appears to be by the same person who is the overwhelmingly primary contributor to Typst: See https://github.com/typst/typst/graphs/contributors

I've never used Quarto, but I might give it a go someday. I currently have a convoluted workflow for generating math-heavy documents that involves generating equations using SymPy in a notebook, accumulating them in a string, and ultimately dumping the string into a Markdown. I would love to simplify this sooner rather than later. I'm also keeping an eye on https://typst.app/ and hoping for a sane alternative to LaTeX to emerge.

We could be using html based DSLs and powerful importable components instead of special characters. Monaco (VSCode editor framework) allows frontend devs to make special DSL editors with autocomplete for both desktop and web. Between Spectacle and Typst approaches, I would choose Spectacle.

I read the 2003 book The art of Unix programming where the author praises plain text config and says hand editing xml is a human rights violation, since Notepad was the most powerful ubiquitous editor then. Markdown was best then.

https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/spectacle/docs/api...

https://typst.app/

> No way I'll use LaTeX for all my writing, and anything Markdown-based just won't cut it formatting-wise.

Have a look at Typst[0]. It's a lot easier to use than LaTeX, while still offering full formatting and layout.

Or you could give macOS a go. UNIX with proper desktop versions of the Office apps. ;)

[0]: https://typst.app/

I wish journals would start accepting Typst[0] files. It is definitely the format of the next decade in my opinion. It's both open source and highly performant.

Sadly existing legacy structures prevent it from gaining the critical mass needed for it to thrive just yet.

[0] https://typst.app/

I may be a tad late, but typst does have a compiler you can use locally with your favorite local text editor.

https://github.com/typst/typst/releases

I am happily experimenting with Typst right now (https://typst.app/ ), which compiles much faster than LaTeX and with a syntax very similar to md, together with nice support for math, figures and advanced settings.