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

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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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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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[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

[…] \frac{n(n+1)}{2} in latex turns into (n(n + 1)) / 2 in typst […]

Note that one can also write that as frac(n(n+1), 2) ^[1][4]^.

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Type: Webpage. Title: “frac”. Publisher: “Typst”. Location: “Documentation”>“Reference”>“Math”>“Fraction”. Location (URI): https://typst.app/docs/reference/math/frac/. Accessed: 2026-03-18T05:34Z.

Type: Anecdote. Published: 2026-03-19T07:51Z.

echo "#set page(width: auto, height: auto, margin: 0pt); $ (n(n + 1)) / 2 $" | typst compile - o.png

Type: Anecdote. Published: 2026-03-19T07:51Z.

echo "#set page(width: auto, height: auto, margin: 0pt); $ frac(n(n+1), 2) $" | typst compile - o.png

Type: Meta. Published: 2026-03-19T07:53Z.
- Both (n(n + 1)) / 2, and frac(n(n+1), 2) result in in Typst ^[2][3]^

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