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Typst makes big strides

77 points • by leephillips • today at 4:25 PM • 10 comments • view on HN

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film42 • today at 8:48 PM

I use typst for all sorts of things in customer apps: conference badges, customer invoices, social media asset generation (like thumbnails for podcasts, customer reviews, etc.), certificates of completion, progress reports, and much more. It's just so robust, efficient and works everywhere. Never again do I need to worry about html formatting to make PDFs.

hedgehog • today at 7:55 PM

Typst has a bunch of nice features, it seems like I discover another every time I use it for something. Most recently I saw that you can import TOML (or JSON if you really want) data into the template, making it really simple to populate the content from another tool.

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podviaznikov • today at 9:17 PM

started using typst in the past year.

creating my resume in it felt as magical as it can be.

i loved the tech and ideas behind typst even added native support for it in my WYSIWYG markdown(and typst) editor[1].

[1] https://wander.md

wxw • today at 7:56 PM

I use Typst for formatting my resume, and it’s been great. Models are pretty good at writing it too if you don’t want to learn the syntax.

criemen • today at 7:44 PM

To paraphrase Churchill, LaTeX is the worst form of typesetting experience except for all those other technologies that we've tried.

Glad that that's no longer the case!

dwrodri • today at 5:26 PM

As someone who used LaTeX heavily in grad school, using Typst in VSCode to create bespoke invites to an event was quite nice! Would highly recommend giving it a spin.

andonvr • today at 6:29 PM

I was able to use Typst for my thesis, it felt sooo smooth. Turned it into a conference paper half a year later, and had to use the IEEE Latex format to hand it in. Oof, that was humbling.

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