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I hope in a couple of years we start seeing posts like these with Typst instead of LaTeX. It seems like setting this up would be a bit easier since Typst is muc
by djsavvy 3y ago
I hope in a couple of years we start seeing posts like these with Typst instead of LaTeX. It seems like setting this up would be a bit easier since Typst is much more concise than LaTeX.
[0] https://github.com/typst/typst https://github.com/typst/typst
- aldanor 3y agoIndeed. It took me less than half hour to go zero-to-hero, with neovim. Incremental preview is absolutely awesome and the syntax is much less \{}\{}\{}\{}\{}.
- mmcdermott 3y agoTypst is likely in a place of needing to convince journals to adopt first. Most of the audience for TeX/LaTeX/etc. are academics. I've noticed a curious pattern in the corporate world of the end product dictating tool usage backwards, even if it isn't best. For example, I've been in plenty of meetings where an individual will open Outlook or PowerPoint to take notes because deliveries tend to be presentations or emails. Nothing requires this, of course, but the fixed format tends to reach backwards and influence the choice other tools. As a result, I imagine that note-takers in an academic setting will continue to use LaTeX for notes until the end product can be submitted in something else.
- nequo 3y agoI think it’s this that keeps LaTeX alive, and the fact that as academics we already know it but Typst is a new DSL to learn on top of everything else that our job requires us to do. There’s also some tooling that makes LaTeX not wholly unpleasant to use like in-buffer previews in Emacs and Detexify for symbol search: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Maybe Typst has tools like these too?