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As a long time latex user, and one who is occasionally frustrated by usual things about latex, I have two qualms about attempting to switch to a new system. The
by Eddy_Viscosity2 1y ago
As a long time latex user, and one who is occasionally frustrated by usual things about latex, I have two qualms about attempting to switch to a new system. The first is I already have found solutions to many of my edge cases in latex. Will I have to do this all over again in something like Typst? It can't be so good as to not have any. And when I do encounter them, is the user base big enough to have already encountered it and solved it and wrote about it, so I can just look it up?
Looking at the example in the link, in principle it looks great. But one of the strengths of latex is that I can customize things. Like for the list example, I can have fine tune control over the indent on both sides, the list marker symbol, the space between the marker and the text, and so on and so on. Does typst have this level of control?
- vessenes 1y agoSame boat here. It’s a very good layout language. And vastly superior production process. Will you find new edge cases? Yes. Is there a large user base covering all problems? No. You can add: “Does Claude Code understand it well enough?” No as of a year ago, last time I checked.
- throwaway_7274 1y agoYesterday I had Claude write me a simple 3d renderer using the CetZ package (typst’s Tikz) to draw illustrations of surfaces for a math paper. It pretty much nailed it.
- __mharrison__ 1y agoI've had decent results from AI for typst.
- pbronez 1y agoAI support is an interesting new facet of ecosystem quality. I wonder how much of this can be obviated with high quality tools. Coding agents can leverage language servers and documentation fairly well, but it’s not clear to me if that can fully compensate for weak language coverage in the training data.
- tcfhgj 1y agoControl for indentation, spacing and symbol is available: https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/list/ https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/list/
- foobarian 1y agoI guess to add to that, what if there is another party involved with your work that will demand latex? Like a library or journal publishing your thesis/paper?
- philistine 1y agoTypst still does not natively support floating images. You can put images at the top of a page, or at the bottom, but there is no native way to declare an image as floating with text wrapping around it.
- SabrinaJewson 1y ago“Natively” is important here because it’s actually relatively easy to get it working with a package: https://github.com/ntjess/wrap-it https://github.com/ntjess/wrap-it
- cozzyd 1y agoDoes it support the monstrosity that is wrapfig? Writing a proposal would be impossible without that.