Typst Reviews and Details

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• E-invoices with ZUGFeRD and Factur-X in Oicana

  ZUGFeRD and Factur-X are standards used in Germany and France that solve this by putting both readers in one file: a normal PDF users can look at, with the structured invoice data embedded as XML for automation. This post explains why you would want or need that and how Oicana produces such a file from a Typst template. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Better PDF Presentations (+Typst)

  Like many of us here I prefer not use PowerPoint. Recently I've been making slides in Typst (https://typst.app) which is great, except there's no good way to actually present the resulting PDF, and no support for speaker notes, videos or GIFS. To fix this I built Presio: https://presio.xyz. Present any PDF in the browser as two synced windows, a controller (speaker notes, timer, media controls) and a viewer for... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Accessibility law and your PDFs: creating PDF/UA with Oicana

  This post looks at what the European Accessibility Act and the US accessibility framework (ADA and Section 508) mean for businesses that produce PDFs, whether PDF/UA is actually required, and how Oicana exports PDF/UA-1 documents from Typst templates. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Typst 0.15.0

  > Is there anything similar to (or better than) overleaf for collaborating on typst docs? To be clear, overleaf isn’t all that great but I sometimes work with groups that are used to it. Yes, https://typst.app/ is the official Typst app (part of how they make money). > Have conferences that traditionally accepted latex source (and specified latex templates) started accepting typst as well? Very few by now. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

  Co-maintainer here. Tectonic is a cool project, but hasn't seen any significant changes in a few years---and likely won't anytime soon. It seems we maintainers don't have the time and motivation to put serious work into Tectonic. I haven't looked at the code in years (and thus may be wrong), but here's a quick overview: Tectonic's code consists of thin bindings to /harfbuzz/graphite/etc and a vendored XeTeX port,... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Generate PDF invoices in React with a live preview

  The typesetter is Typst, and the bridge between Typst and your application code is Oicana, which I built. Oicana is source-available. Free for non-commercial use, paid for commercial use, full pricing at the end. The Typst compiler underneath is open source. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Why the heck are we still using Markdown?

  As always, honorable mention to Typst [0] as a good balance between the readability & simplicity of Markdown with the flexibility & composability of LaTeX. [0]: https://typst.app. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Leaving Google has actively improved my life

  I think https://typst.app/#start has multi user support, you'd have to learn typst though. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Prism

  I was using Crixet before I switched over to Typst[0] for all of my writing. However, back when I did use Crixet, I never used its AI features. It was just a much better alternative to Overleaf for me. Sad to see that AI will be forced on all Crixet users now. [0]: https://typst.app. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Prism

  100% completely agreed. It's not the future, it's the past. Typst feels more like the future: https://typst.app/ The problem is that so many journals require certain LaTeX templates so Typst isn't an option. It's about network effects, and journals don't want to change their entire toolchain. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Prism

  Agreed. Tex/Latex is very old tech. Error recovery and messages is very bad. Developing new macros in Tex is about as fun as you expect developing in a 70s-era language to be (ie probably similar to cobol and old fortran). I haven't tried it yet but Typst seems like a promising replacement: https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Online Book: Exploring Mathematics with Python

  Try [typst](https://typst.app/) as an alternative to Latex. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Typesetting the "Begriffsschrift" by Gottlob Frege in Plain TeX [pdf]

  I wonder if Typst [1] can handle this. [1] https://typst.app. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• AsciiMath

  If you like this, check out typst https://typst.app. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Typst 0.14: Now Accessible

  There's usually some confusion about this, so to clarify in advance: - The Typst online editor is proprietary: https://typst.app. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

  If generating PDF dynamically is what you really care about, consider Typst. https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• TeX Live 2025 Released

  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. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Transform Your Codebase into a Single Markdown Doc for Feeding into AI

  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... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc

  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... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

  > 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/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv

  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/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago