This is the overview article I needed on Typst.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

This is the overview article I needed on Typst. It concisely explains how the document preparation system works, in what it differs from LaTeX, and why it may be a suitable replacement for LaTeX.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577

#typst #TextFormatting

[tuparev@mstdn.social]

@amoroso

A few years ago, my team developed a LaTeX editor for iOS, specially for maths teachers who do not know LaTeX. It is still widely used by maths teachers who create content for one of the US publishing houses. Perhaps the problem is not TeX but the editors? No one writes plain PDF or PS, but everyone uses them.

Still the best Sci editor app I’ve ever used was the FrameMaker for NeXTStep. Perhaps we should focus our efforts in this direction?

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@tuparev Power users probably prefer directly typing code in a formatting language as WYSIWYG editors introduce friction.

[inscript@merveilles.town]

@amoroso more and more of my work/personal notes are in typst. never written a single line of latex before. go figure.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@inscript That's an interesting use case.