Never again in outer par mode: making next-generation PDFs with Quarto & typst - posit::conf(2023)

Presented by Carlos Scheidegger
Quarto 1.4 will introduce support for Typst. Typst is a brand-new open-source typesetting system built from scratch to support the lessons we have learned over almost half a century of high-quality computer typesetting that TeX and LaTeX have enabled. If you've ever had to produce a PDF with Quarto and got stuck handling an inscrutable error message from LaTeX, or wanted to create a new template but were too intimated by LaTeX's arcane syntax, this talk is for you. I'll show you why we need an alternative for TeX and LaTeX , and why it will make Quarto even better.
Presented at Posit Conference, between Sept 19-20 2023,
Learn more at posit.co/conference.
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Talk Track: Quarto (2).
Session Code: TALK-1142

[@thomascorbin5371]

Great presentation. The speaker is a lot of fun.

[@arian386]

Typst is so easy that using markdown isn't necessary

[@mahdi7d1rostami]

I write a lot of Bidirectional text including Persian and English and typst's out of the box support for rtl text rendering was a happy surprise (Considering how new this project is I thought to myself there is no way they have put the time to implement Arabic letter rendering but they actually did). When using LaTeX you have to choose XeLaTeX if you want to have a document with Arabic alphabet but xelatex is even slower when it's comes to rendering compared to the already slow pdflatex. Typst's rendering is so fast that they can show you real time updates because the rendering is done in less than a second.

[@HarmonicaTool]

This looks really, really promising. It is hard to say anything against latex and I will be happy to get rid of it the sooner the better. It will, however, depend on the templates available.

[@mahdi7d1rostami]

It's hard to say anything against latex's capabilities but against it's ergonomics? I have plenty of things to say. I just typed a document in typst (Considering my light usage I cannot testify to it's full potential) and the experience couldn't have been more pleasant.

[@CanDoSo_org]

So cool!

[@CanDoSo_org]

I found it difficult to set color for citation links in typst format.

[@rossd6809]

I haven't found a presentation typist template. Anyone help?

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Does typst work with TikZ?

[@ciso]

There is a typst package for it.

[@homeape.]

​@@cisoits called CeTZ and it's in development