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spudlyolast Wednesday at 3:12 PM6 repliesview on HN

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned how pleasant it is to create coffee stains using Typst, and if only LaTeX wasn't the de-facto standard in academia and stain-related journals, they would have already switched to it.

Of course, you can create coffee stains in HTML as well, but it's not something you can do in Markdown.


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bachmeierlast Wednesday at 4:28 PM

I've been rewriting all my papers in Rust. It's been a pleasant experience getting memory safe coffee stains on my papers.

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fourtharklast Wednesday at 3:21 PM

Thankfully there is a Typst port of this package!

https://typst.app/universe/package/fleck/

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alexitosrvlast Wednesday at 4:02 PM

Typst requires a signup? It's web? It says developed in the open, but the main page also offers a login. What can you about latex vs typst?

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asimeqilast Wednesday at 5:11 PM

The best coffee stains by far are created directly in Postscript.

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__mharrison__last Thursday at 4:40 AM

I know it would be easier in typst than using this library... Ducks.

mrichmanlast Wednesday at 3:49 PM

I came here to say this! I switched to Typst a couple of months ago and won't be going back.