This morning I'm looking at #typst.
The first thing in the tutorial (https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/writing-in-typst/) is how to write a header, and it annoys me that it makes the same mistake HTML, and everything following HTML, made: you specify the level of the heading absolutely, and it's not scoped to a section of the document.
So when you want to have a heading one level lower, you have to know what level the previous heading was. And you can't tell how much of the document the heading applies to, only inferring it as going until the next header of the same or higher level.
I've always wondered why #TeXLaTeX has
\section{name}
instead of
\begin{section}{name} ... \end{section}
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@tommi May I suggest to give #typst a chance? It's segnificatively easier to learn and all the people I know who tried it (all of them proficient latex users for years) don't want to come back
I haven't tried #Typst yet, but if it has good error messages, native SVG support, and #wasm plugins, is there any chance it's not amazing? I'm so stoked to check it out now.
Dovete scrivere dei paper? O, più frivolmente, volete scrivere giochi di ruolo con un discreto layout? Odiate Word, non siete mai riusciti a venire a patti con LaTeX e volete qualcosa tipo il markdown come difficoltà? Date una possibilità a #typst ( https://typst.app ). C'è sia l'IDE online che l'interprete, è molto promettente e con pochi sbattimenti sono riuscito a creare il layout 2colonne + sfondo di D&D3 :-)
Playing around with #typst it’s like a dream come true so far. I edit in #emacs, changes show up in the generated pdf very quickly with the command line tool in watch mode. No fussing around with ponderous toolchains. Next up converting a medium size doc with a lot of equations from #asciidoc.
Thanks to some incredible toil+creativity by one of our equally incredible designers at work, I should have a decent example of using #Quarto + #Typst + #Observable Plot + (ofc) #RStats to generate data-driven PDF reports with a fairly complex multi-page layout ready to blog and git sometime next week. #StayTuned
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@ubuntu Just left a very entertaining talk on #Typst, a #LaTeX successor written in Rust that compiles documents instantly, has nicer syntax, produces accessible PDFs, emits comprehensible error messages... A beauty!
Typst was recommended to me as a very promising fresh replacement for #LaTeX. After using LaTeX for decades, I'm still skeptical but let's watch how this turns out.
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