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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".
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[-] jhk@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

I've used Typst a good bit for both fully private stuff and for uni shenanigans and can say that it has fully replaced Latex for me (when I have a choice, I have managed to convince a few others too). The main thing that won me over was the compilation speed, but the more I've used it the more natural it feels compared to Latex. It's modern by default (you can really just use it with no preamble and it's sane enough), and the ability to write a mostly normal programming language is just amazing. I've produced plenty of simple plots fully within Typst for example, and things like show-rules are genuine innovation. It's of course not perfect, but at this point a good number of these are just additional packages that could be written.

[-] Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

I've written my bachelors thesis with it.

You won't get any official pre made templates for your thesis (yet) and if you require some obscure notation you probably won't find a ready made package for it.

For my purposes I only needed some pictures and code blocks which works perfectly fine.

Also typst's show rules are awesome.

this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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