Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX - jreyesr's blog
Hello again! Today we’ll review Typst ("Ty like in Typesetting and pst like in hipster"), a language and tool to write text documents, usually PDF documents. This will be a very long article; it started small but then kept growing and growing.
Typst is similar in spirit and aims to LaTeX: it’s a typesetting tool that can be used to write and generate documents, usually PDF files. It intends to be used in academic/scientific environments, much like LaTeX is nowadays.
Typst is a good choice for writing any long form text such as essays, articles, scientific papers, books, reports, and homework assignments. Moreover, Typst is a great fit for any documents containing mathematical notation, such as papers in the math, physics, and engineering fields. Finally, due to its strong styling and automation features, it is an excellent choice for any set of documents that share a common style, such as a book series.
Since this is the internet, we’ll first start with The People’s Source of Truth, Reddit™. Here’s a thread on /r/LaTeX, which you’d expect to be biased, if anything, towards LaTeX. And holy cow isn’t that the nicest, most civil Reddit thread in all of the universe. Seriously. In the LaTeX community, talking about a LaTeX alternative. There’s just one (1) rude comment. That’s two years old, so some shortcomings mentioned there (e.g. introspection for counters, and the compiler not being open source) have already been solved.
