Is anyone using typst instead of #tex ?

[aleph_omega_plus_four@mastodon.world]

Is anyone using typst instead of #tex ? Is it any good?

https://typst.app/docs/

#mathematics #maths #math #typography #typesetting

[tomkalei@machteburch.social]

@aleph_omega_plus_four

Yes and Yes and they are mastodon: @typst.

I've just written 120 pages of lecture notes with it. Good fun!

[aleph_omega_plus_four@mastodon.world]

@tomkalei Nice! What's better, what's worse?

[tomkalei@machteburch.social]

@aleph_omega_plus_four

The preview updates live while typing, error messages are better, Typst is less idiosyncratic and 1980s...

LaTeX on the other hand has a gazillion of packages wich solve ever thing you can possibly think of.

Slides are also better with typst. My thoughts from last summer:
https://thomas-kahle.de/blog/2025/typst/

[aleph_omega_plus_four@mastodon.world]

@tomkalei Thanks, that's very helpful. Has there been any package you've found missing and been annoyed by - if so, what's the most basic example?

I immediately went to the package repository and entered "tikz" to see if there was a replacement, so that was good to see

[pf@mstdn.ca]

@aleph_omega_plus_four@mastodon.world As much as TeX was a giant leap forward at the time, to me it is kind of outdated now. It is considered very stable by its developers and we should not expect any significant shift in functionality any time soon. Typst is not mature yet, but very usable. It feels like a modern programming languages and has an interesting package ecosystem. The main drawback is that it is not supported by the vast majority of publishers. I whish I could use it more!