typst VS OpenRefine

https://github.com/typst/typst looks promising, both the language and the tooling. I wonder where it will find its place in a world that is dominated by either Word or LaTex.

I hope in a couple of years we start seeing posts like these with Typst instead of LaTeX. It seems like setting this up would be a bit easier since Typst is much more concise than LaTeX.

[0] https://github.com/typst/typst

For writing math notes (especially in vim), I switch to using Typst (https://typst.app).

Here's a few points:

- The syntax is a lot lighter and easier to type fast. I was up and running in half hour after starting to use it. Once in a while I can look up some symbol name in the docs but that's about it.

- Empty document is a valid document. No preambles, no includes etc, it's all optional and the defaults are sensible. Just start typing.

- It's incremental. Live preview from neovim is in the browser and it's lightning fast, pretty much immediate. No pdf sync pain. No build files, makefiles and all that. Just start typing.

While it's not going to beat latex in terms of serious academic use, for personal use and notes it's close to perfect.

(And of course it's written in Rust...)

Except the main theme, which was HTML export? https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/721

Though it's in the roadmap!

I don't use LaTeX for anything these days but Typst popped up recently and seems like a decent alternative: https://github.com/typst/typst

I am surprised that no one mentions the typst. It is super smooth with typst-preview.

I suggest you ask in the discord channel: https://discord.gg/2uDybryKPe. Or open an issue or question on GitHub: https://github.com/typst/typst

"OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." https://openrefine.org/

Yes, let's hope! The strategy has worked out sometimes - Google shut down 'Google Refine' 10 years ago, it got turned into 'Open Refine', last update 2 months ago. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine

It's a hugely useful tool if you're working with messy Excel-scale data, i.e., most biologists or social scientists.

It seems to be pure JS with jQuery: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/we...

EDIT: trim() does not remove unicode 0x200b (unicode character for zero width space). https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/5105 is worth a read.

There were six homework assignments. In order they were Regular Expressions, OpenRefine, Datalog, SQL, Provenance, and Python. None of these assignments took more than two to three hours to complete. They all were basic implementation and programming assignments with autograders.

Open Refine will get you about 70% there. It's FOSS

I’ve heard good things about https://openrefine.org/

It's not suited to SQL, use Open Refine or python fuzzywuzzy.