yasnippet VS typst

There's YASnippet, which could be used in much the same way as the tools that were described.

https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet

Although the Org manual says that YASnippet doesn’t play well, I personally haven’t had any issues. Maybe I’ve just been lucky? But I do have a snippet that uses the format command to create an Org inactive timestamp. Just a thought.

For the first question, I would look into a template system like Yasnippet or tempo. I think that’s the best approach for it, and I’m not sure if you can do it with completion methods like corfu

I second yasnippet, it is extremely handy for all sorts of boilerplate (like LaTeX preambles, environments). There are many contributed snippets in the yasnippet-snippets repo that you can look at as examples.

Hmmm... Maybe yasnippet?

(defun whatacold/yasnippet-exit-hook () "My yasnippet exit hook." (when (or (eq major-mode 'c-mode) (eq major-mode 'c++-mode)) (whatacold/yasnippet-exit-hook-c))) ;; see https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/issues/728 ;; (after! c-or-c++-mode) ;;

Yasnippet might work. It's mostly used for programming related expansion, but I see no reason it wouldn't work for this too: https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet

Ah the code generation in the gif is from a plugin (Yasnippet) for the main editor I'm using (Emacs) to write GDScript. So not the built-in editor in Godot, no. The only bits I wrote is what keys expand into what on top of the snippet language, but they're just dumb text expansions and are unaware of any language specific context, e.g. this is the map one:

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