typst VS pgfplots

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.

Check out [typest](https://typst.app/) if you're looking to write a book yourself.

[Hypermedia Systems book](https://hypermedia.systems/) was written with it.

This [issue](https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/4224) and others like it are dealbreakers for me. There are numerous related issues, but the developers are stubbornly sticking to their interpretation—using the older definition of leading from the days of metal type, rather than the more modern concept of line-spacing. No other software or modern typesetting system I know of uses this approach anymore. This is particularly frustrating since I work with a lot of multilingual text, including Arabic, and it's very difficult to align the baselines when setting text in more than one column.

- Long-form, print-friendly report generation, including data visualization, tables and images

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

I somehow didn't know about https://github.com/typst/typst. This is a really cool project, going to dig in further.

At first glance, this seems particularly useful for scientific-style notebooks, which aren't our primary focus. If the demand is there though, I don't see why we couldn't integrate.

It's kinda early, but we're looking at collaborating with https://typst.app/ (a modern LaTeX alternative) on this. They already have some of the low-level PDF writing infrastructure in place, and are working on something higher-level that we're hoping to use.

(you could also look at using Typst directly if you're not tied to HTML)

I think that I need something in between. Recently, I was checking typst. It is quite impressive. But I am not sure if I need a better LaTeX.

I think the previous author is confused because if you google "Typst", you end up at https://typst.app, which seems to only advertise the web GUI and not the open-source CLI tool.

> Now, it’s certainly possible that one could develop a new, generative typesetting language that captures the virtues that I’ve discussed above and is free of TeX’s historical baggage.

Like [typst](https://github.com/typst/typst)?

But, if you really hate yourself and the self-flagellation doesn’t suit your fancy, you can find a primer on the basics of programming in LaTeX here: https://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/ (look for the technical papers) I did the solving part the most basic, brute force way possible—it was already obnoxious enough. Modern computers are fast enough for even the LaTeX to come up with a solution in a reasonable time frame (still, think minutes, not seconds). I’m sure somebody who actually cares about such things will be able to point you towards something much more sane, but that unfortunately won’t be me.

But if you're looking for a comprehensive list of the out-of-box keys, you might try looking through the pgfplots repo.

The TikZ library colorbrewer doesn't define a color Dark2-3-2 but it does have Dark2-A through Dark2-H, and the PGF library colorbrewer organizes those into colormaps, so you can lookup the color map and use the desired colors:

You’ve clearly either not read the source code for any complex LaTeX package or haven’t understood it. Your criterion is ‘data structures and algorithms’? Well, here’s a data structure, and I’m sure if I dig around for a couple of minutes I can find an algorithm. The PGFPlots maintainer has the package on his resumé, and he has a job. Even if he didn’t, that’s clearly an unnecessary criterion. You’re unlikely to be hired on the basis of your MACRO-11 knowledge. That doesn’t stop it being programming.