After three months of closed Preview testing, Typst is now available to everyone! We are also making the Typst compiler open source. Today is an excit

Typst starts its public beta test and goes open source

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2023-03-29 23:00:06

After three months of closed Preview testing, Typst is now available to everyone! We are also making the Typst compiler open source.

Today is an exciting day for us at Typst! After a week of applying the necessary polish and three months of closed Preview Testing, we are ready to make our scientific typesetting app available to the general public. Starting today, everyone can use our app and find out how Typst helps them to compose papers faster. We plan to use the beta test to learn more about the needs of a diverse set of users from many different disciplines, build a community of Typst users, and make learning Typst even easier. For this reason, we'd like to get Typst into as many hands as possible now and get even more feedback.

To make Typst accessible and true to an open science / open access mindset, we are open sourcing the Typst compiler on GitHub. The compiler is the foundation on which we built our web app. We have worked on it for almost four years, with relentless focus on detail and are proud to share it with you now. With the compiler out in the open, everyone can contribute to the features of the Typst platform by opening issues or collaborating on the code and documentation. An open compiler also ensures that you will always be able to compile your Typst documents. No lock-in, ever!

Alongside our beta launch, we're shipping a big update today. It contains enough new features and improvements to get its own blog post, but let's zero in on a few of the highlights: Typst can now automatically manage your bibliography. Just upload your existing bibtex file and start by @citing your literature. Typst will display the appropriate in-text citation and prepare a bibliography for you.

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