Typst Reviews and details

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• 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 / 15 days 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 / about 1 month 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 / about 2 months 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 / about 2 months 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 / about 2 months ago

• MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

  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. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• You too can write a book

  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. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

  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). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Introduction to Haskell Diagrams

  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. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Why I Prefer RST to Markdown

  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. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Why I Prefer RST to Markdown

  Every heard about https://typst.app/? - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Why I Prefer RST to Markdown

  Maybe Typst (https://typst.app/) is a good in-between? - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Building the New Hypermedia Systems

  Deniz did absolutely amazing work re-laying out the entire book using typst: https://typst.app/ And the results have been fantastic when compared with the asciidoc version we created initially. We also had a pixel artist do a new cover for the paper back version: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSsMjBra4AAOQZ_?format=jpg&name=4096x4096. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Building the New Hypermedia Systems

  We just released a paper back version of Hypermedia Systems that has been completely redone using typst: https://typst.app/ a relatively new typesetting tool, replacing our old asciidoc setup. Deniz did all the work and documented the process of porting over as well as some of the cool things you can to with typst on his blog. Very good experience and anyone considering self publishing a technical book can take a... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix

  I’ve actually made the switch over to Typst[0] for my app [1]. I’ve previously used a quick jinja .tex template that then just pasted things in, but LaTeX can really throw some strange errors and overall handling the files was a hassle. Typst was much easier to setup and the function-based operation meant that sending variables in was a breeze with better error handling there too. Also, I just grok the syntax a... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix

  Typst a way simpler approach to this: https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language? (2010)

  Typst[1] is another tool which implements document generation from the ground up. Zerodha had a great article [2] how they migrated from LaTeX based pdf generation to Typst, which ended up saving time and compute. [1]: https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking

  I have been using Typst[1] for taking notes on machine learning. It's fast (updates are instantaneous). The syntax is almost like Markdown. I tried to learn LaTeX but Typst seems to have an easier learning curve. [1]: https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking

  I'd personally consider using Typst (https://typst.app) instead of LaTeX. It has a much more readable syntax and you don't need as much snippets to write it. You can use in on their website or run the compiler locally just like LaTeX. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)

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

• I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)

  Have you seen typst? I have moved over from LaTex to Typst and most if not all your use cases are covered. https://typst.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago