141

Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use" (github.com)

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

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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]^

References

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

How does Typst compare to something like Asciidoc ? I haven't found many editors with typst support unfortunately

[-] badabim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's not the same use case. Asciidoc is closer to markdown/org/reST, i.e., simple markup languages, whereas Typst also emphasizes on presentation (layouting, element positioning, creation of complex figures, etc.). You can reproduce features from Asciidoc in Typst using scripting.

As for editors, aside from the official webapp, and the community LSP (tinymist), there aren't that many available.

[-] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for explaining. It seems like I had a completely different understanding/exoectation of what typst is.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

[…] I haven’t found many editors with typst support unfortunately

I'm not sure what you mean — I personally just write it in VS Code ^[1]^, and then compile it locally ^[2]^.

References

Type: Website. Title: "Visual Studio Code". Publisher: "Visual Studio Code". Accessed: 2026-03-19T08:56Z. Location (URI): https://code.visualstudio.com/.
Type: Webpage. Title: "typst/typst". Publisher: "GitHub". Published (Modified): 2026-03-18T10:04:07.000Z. Accessed: 2026-03-19T08:59Z. Location (URI): https://github.com/typst/typst.

[-] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

I meant a normal note taking application, not text editors or IDEs. I use markor on my Android phone, it has support for Markdown and Asciidoc. Markdown is fine until you need tables.

I've heard from a lot of people how typst is amazing, but found no apps with support for it. Is it because it's still in development ?