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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. ^[1.1]^

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  1. Type: Webpage. Title: "typst/typst". Publisher: "GitHub". Published (Modified): 2026-03-16T09:39:55.000Z. Accessed: 2025-03-18T08:55Z. URI: https://github.com/typst/typst.
    1. Type: File. Title: "README.md".
      • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.
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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

This actually looks good. Though at this point I get annoyed at anything that doesn't make an effort to be compatible with Markdown - idk if there's any good reason they chose # as the symbol for introducing code lines, but surely it makes sense with the ubiquity of markdown to make that start a header. Similarly with * for emphasis and whatnot.

But it genuinely looks like a good effort to dispense with the backslashes and braces of LaTeX yet retain a coherent and comprehensive mathematical output.

What is surprising is that it doesn't appear to ultimately just call through to TeX. That probably means it has a chance of having good error handling and decent performance... I will have to give it a try.

this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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