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Is there any reason why you can't use Typst for any of the stuff you mentioned? I can't see why you couldn't (except for interactive forms, which is already bei

Is there any reason why you can't use Typst for any of the stuff you mentioned? I can't see why you couldn't (except for interactive forms, which is already being worked on [1]. The pdf-writer low-level backend seems to have already implemented support for form fields, so it seems like a matter of time until it is implemented in Typst). [1] https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1765 https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1765

rendaw 1y ago
I believe you can do those sorts of layouts in Typst (and Latex, and Sile!), but it's about how far out of the way you have to go and how much you fight the system in the process. I don't see any examples of Typst doing anything other than papers, I believe for good reason. To be clear, I mean from a design perspective. Like take a print copy of Wired... how hard would it be to replicate any of those pages? Without using other software (aside from maybe cutting up stock photos). I can format scientific papers in HTML and it's not too hard, I can also format a cookbook, and it's not that hard. It's not great either!
- andy12_ 1y ago
  Honestly, I don't think that it would be too hard. With the grid function you can do a lot of things, specially because you can use grid.cell(rowspan:3, colswap:4) to make cells that span multiple rows or columns, use fractional sizes for the columns (1fr, 2fr, etc), and add independent insets and strokes for each cell, so you can already do a lot of the things you can achieve with css flexbox. Though I suppose the docs could include tutorials for how to use them to make a more diverse kind of documents, and adding another layout function that behaves more like flexbox would be nice (though it wouldn't be too hard to create a function that re-creates the behaviour of flexbox based on the grid function).
- lblume 1y ago
  I found it much easier to use Typst to create any of these documents than any other software I used before. Just loading data from a JSON and incrementally regenerating the document on each change is game-changing for me.
jamesmunns 1y ago
You definitely can, I designed a 206x85cm standing banner for my last trade show as one of the first "production" things I built in Typst: https://typst.app/project/r1YNDcKpoF1sVXHf5n4VKB https://typst.app/project/r1YNDcKpoF1sVXHf5n4VKB Plus you can share the rendered and preview form of the project with a single link, which is pretty neat.

rendaw 1y ago

I believe you can do those sorts of layouts in Typst (and Latex, and Sile!), but it's about how far out of the way you have to go and how much you fight the system in the process. I don't see any examples of Typst doing anything other than papers, I believe for good reason. To be clear, I mean from a design perspective. Like take a print copy of Wired... how hard would it be to replicate any of those pages? Without using other software (aside from maybe cutting up stock photos). I can format scientific papers in HTML and it's not too hard, I can also format a cookbook, and it's not that hard. It's not great either!

andy12_ 1y ago
Honestly, I don't think that it would be too hard. With the grid function you can do a lot of things, specially because you can use grid.cell(rowspan:3, colswap:4) to make cells that span multiple rows or columns, use fractional sizes for the columns (1fr, 2fr, etc), and add independent insets and strokes for each cell, so you can already do a lot of the things you can achieve with css flexbox. Though I suppose the docs could include tutorials for how to use them to make a more diverse kind of documents, and adding another layout function that behaves more like flexbox would be nice (though it wouldn't be too hard to create a function that re-creates the behaviour of flexbox based on the grid function).
lblume 1y ago
I found it much easier to use Typst to create any of these documents than any other software I used before. Just loading data from a JSON and incrementally regenerating the document on each change is game-changing for me.

jamesmunns 1y ago

You definitely can, I designed a 206x85cm standing banner for my last trade show as one of the first "production" things I built in Typst: https://typst.app/project/r1YNDcKpoF1sVXHf5n4VKB https://typst.app/project/r1YNDcKpoF1sVXHf5n4VKB Plus you can share the rendered and preview form of the project with a single link, which is pretty neat.