typst

A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. (by typst)

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  • MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2024
    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.
  • You too can write a book
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2024
    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.

  • Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2024
    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.
  • Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2024
    - Long-form, print-friendly report generation, including data visualization, tables and images

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

  • Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2024
    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.

  • Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2024
    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)

  • Introduction to Haskell Diagrams
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Aug 2024
    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.
  • Why I Prefer RST to Markdown
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2024
    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.
  • What TeX Gets Right
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2024
    > 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)?

  • Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2024
    I'm not sure what you're referring to because when justification is enabled Typst uses almost the same line breaking algorithm as TeX. [1]

    One problem we had was over-eager hyphenation. We've addressed that recently. [2]

    [1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/blob/9b001e21121ab7b5645aa36f...

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