We just dropped Typst 0.11: It includes better tables, user-defined templates, and more flexible ways to automate your document. Also launching today is Typst Universe. This is a beautiful page to explore packages and templates for Typst.
So we have this e-paper display in our hallway that shows how many ๐ stars we got on GitHub. And this morning โ EXACTLY 30,000. WOW THANK ALL OF YOU SO MUCH โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
As we are blowing up in this post's mentions, let me share a few CV templates for Typst. Read on if you never again want to decipher LaTeX logs before applying to jobs:
Worst decision I ever made was writing my resume in LaTeX. Every time I want to apply for a job I put it off because I know I'll have to deal with inscrutable build errors. This has likely cost me tens of thousands of dollars in lost income
The Typst web app is now available On Premise!
Reach out to us if your organization does a lot of technical writing and needs this writing to stay in-house. Details below ๐
This
#PackageThursday
is for all our Japanese, Chinese, and Korean speakers out there: Add Ruby to your characters with the rubby package to get your message across crystal clear.
Today is Package Thursday!
Use polylux by Andreas Krรถpelin to create slideshows in Typst. Include all the tables, math, code from your papers, now for the big stage! ๐ฝ๏ธ
At Typst, we believe that a intuitive UX is essential for technical writing. Poor user interfaces cause issues. Case in point: today, our website was down for 6 hours due to confusing UX. ๐งต
In September
@overleaf
reduced the limit for compile time-outs and restricted the # of collaborators for free users. As my university does not provide institutional accounts, almost none of my projects compile anymore in a reasonable amount of time.
Suggestions or alternatives?
Physicists can make Typst their own with Physica: The package includes handy shortcuts for common operators, signal sequence diagrams, and more:
#PackageThursday
It's Package Thursday! ๐ฆ (we're making it a thing)
Today, check out commute by giacomogallina which enables you to draw mathematical commutative diagrams. Use it in Typst today:
Typst will attend
@Ubuntu
Summit 2023! Join our talk "LaTeX: It's not you, it's me" and the lightning talk "Building an incrementally executed scripting language" and say hi ๐
@quackzaahr
I'm writing my next 2 Technical Specifications for C in typst (the Callable Functions one (Lambdas + Nested Functions + Statement Expressions) and the Spans one (ptr + size language built-in structure)).
So yeah, I have heard of it and I'm excited to get away from LaTex!!!
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"the typesetting future" nails it. couldn't have put it better myself. as someone who's written a 170-page thesis in typst, i'm never going back to latex. typst is ready for prime time. huge time saver with clear error messages, instant compilation and powerful scripting
The burden of reformatting is real if your tools donโt support you. Typst eliminates it with smart templates and a formatting system you can actually understand
Thiemo Fetzer ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ - same handle elsewhere
I wish as academics we could focus on producing evidence and not waste time reformatting. I am glad this has now been quantified. But I would like to think these may reflect a lower bound on the true cost as there is an extensive margin as well.
I have a whole trail of perfectly
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I always forget where I put my stuff - cannot happen with variables & functions in Typst anymore, though. Just hold ctrl and click and we show you where you defined it!
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@typstapp
my saviour
You can and should use typst for genuinely any academic or professional essay/report it's so worth learning and the impression it makes when compared to a typical .docx is... wow
plus native pdf means NO MORE USING BUGGY CONVERTERS IT'S SO PRETTY
Author order on academic papers is important!
My Google friends and I spent lots of time thinking about this critical issue (the scores of our ICML submissions show this is time well spent)
We distill our findings for the community here:
Comments welcome!
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Typst
@typstapp
has just merged a PR that adds functionality for typesetting line numbers. This is huge, IMO: itโs the last missing feature to make *ACL templates for Typst.
Iโve been using Typst for a few months now and can totally see myself writing conference papers with it!
I'm crying after using
@typstapp
for the first time. Everything is so much simpler, faster, and intuitive than latex. No more backslash before every symbol. Divide in equations with /. Vectors and matrices as functions. Text in equations with quotes.
What a time to be alive.
The
@typstapp
is great for creating PDFs with specific needs, such as placing multiple images on the same page. I like it! So does my wife, she doesn't need to repeat the same action in msword anymore.
I'm working with co-authors, and will have to write in LaTeX for the first time in I don't know how long, and I'm not looking forward to it (... the LaTeX part, because the project is cool). ๐
Might have something to do with the tools used to write papers. In LaTeX, you need like five lines of code to define and change a color. Meanwhile, in Typst, these are available templates: (and not too hard to do something like this yourself)
if one would, say, write a scientific paper, can it get rejected on the basis of being too colorful and styled, and for being written in an informal, casual, and approachable language, even though its content is all legit?
like does it have to look like a math paper or
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With the Typst update that has just gone live, we have completely revamped math mode and more: For example, we now support multiline math and alignments in formulas. 1/5
Do you work in a company that does technical writing? Weโd love to talk and explore how Typst can make you more productive. DM us or RT for max. reach!
Typst will be unavailable on July 19th, 2023, between 00:00 and 01:30 CEST (July 18th, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT) for maintenance.
We will migrate our database to a different data center for increased reliability and performance. Thank you for your understanding!
We are super grateful to
@dginev
, the first sponsor of Typst at the Professor Tier! Also check out their great work on ar5iv, an accessible HTML preprint archive!