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

[@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.

[@thomascorbin5371]

Great presentation. The speaker is a lot of fun.

[@CanDoSo_org]

So cool!

[@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.

[@曾皓楷-m9g]

nice

[@arian386]

Typst is so easy that using markdown isn't necessary

[@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

[@ianthehunter3532]

While it sounds appealing in the presentation, you fail to acknowledge it has nowhere near the extensibility of LaTeX. If you wish to create a package there, chances are, someone beat you to it. Yes, this is subject to change in Typst, but hyping it so early isn't frank, and as of now, it doesn't stand out as an alternative to anyone seeking a truly capable typing environment.

[@humblemacron8522]

Ah yes, the characteristic problem of new technology adoption. Mind you, LaTeX is quite old now. Extensible and vast, definitely, but also bloated and often nonsensical in design, especially for today.

[@igordrukov4776]

Typst is more than capable for 99% of use-cases. I've been doing TeX for almost 20 years, and Typst is just a no-brainer. TeX is cumbersome, recondite and slow as a slug. Typst is blazing-fast and intuitive, opening perspectives I wouldn't even have dared considering with TeX. The old dinosaur needs to be put down.

[@ianthehunter3532]

@@igordrukov4776 I like to see you struggle with timing and Feynman diagrams in Typst.