uniqueuid
I have nothing but great things to say about typst, and
this is my personal favorite from this release:"A single
document can now contain multiple bibliographies"
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raybb
I'm currently working on my fourth book produced using
Typst, and it has been nothing but amazing. LLMs struggle
with Typst a bit but other than that it has been an
absolute joy to work with.I have a pretty good workflow
set up for publishing these books, which are mostly
collections of student essays. I use Pandoc to convert the
students' Word documents into Typst, then unify the
formatting, styles, and headers (mostly via LLMs). From
there, I generate both a nice digital PDF and a
print-ready PDF using Typst, and then use Pandoc again to
convert the Typst into what ultimately becomes an EPUB.It
all works quite beautifully. Most of the challenges I've
run into are related to Typst features that don't map
cleanly to Pandoc, so I end up adding a few funky
conditionals so those features aren't hit when converting
via Pandoc. sys.inputs makes that very easy
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/11588The books in
question:
https://thelabofthought.co/shop
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> weinzierl
"LLMs struggle with Typst a bit"My experience is the
opposite.
Especially when instructing the LLM to do very fine
grained and detailed adjustments. Works like a
charm.Typst is my go-to format if I need more than
plain text.
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> > echoangle
I had the same experience as the root commenter.
Sometimes ChatGPT seems to generate invalid typst
code that doesn't even compile. Maybe the syntax
changed and it did work at some point but some
stuff looked so wrong that I would guess it just
doesn't have enough training data for proper typst
generation without feeding examples into the
context first.
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thomascountz
HTML support just keeps getting better and better!
Mathematical equations are now automatically exported to
MathML (thanks to @mkorje)[1]
[1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/7436
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opto
As a non-developer who really only uses computers to write
and produce documents, why would I use typst over org-mode
or $your_fave_markdown + pandoc?
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> mr_mitm
You can pass a JSON structure to a Typst document and
render it however you like. No need for a templating
engine or anything like that.Pandoc probably uses
latex under the hood, and Typst is order of magnitudes
faster. Also, much better error messages.Typst is
vastly superior for usage in automation or when
developing document classes.If that's not your use
case, don't bother.
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> > applicative
To produce a pdf, pandoc uses typst, pdfroff,
lualatex, whatever you please. There is no
particular connection to latex. The idea exhibits
complete ignorance.
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> collabs
I'm sure everyone has their own use case but I use
typst for resumes or other documents that I want to
keep in git but I need to share with others using
PDF.I use typst in visual studio code using tiny mist
extension. I can generate PDF without installing any
new software other than vscode which I already have
and the tiny mist extension. The live preview is also
nice.The one thing that bothers me is the dollar sign
and the hash sign so to write something like saved $50
million using c#, I write something like saved USD 50
million using #csharpAnd near the top I add a variable
like this #let csharp = "C#"
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> JoshTriplett
Markdown is for "I want to type semantic content and
get a vaguely reasonable result". Typst is for
typesetting documents where you care what the output
looks like, and where you want a print-quality PDF
(or, in the future, also HTML; currently still WIP).
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> kryptiskt
Typst does typesetting like TeX (or InDesign for a
WYSIWYG alternative), neither org-mode nor markdown
has a rich enough formatting language for general
typesetting, like if you want to make a flyer for a
concert, a brochure or a comic book.
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> applicative
I pass from markdown to typst pdf via pandoc a few
times a day. From that point of view it is just an
alternative to latex or roff, e.g.pandoc -r markdown
-w pdf --pdf-engine=typst input.md -o output.pdf
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> jwr
I use pandoc + typst to render beautiful documents
from Markdown. Works really, really well.
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> jfb
It produces beautiful PDF output from org-mode!
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> almostjazz
Compilation speed on typst is crazy
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vatsachak
Typst killed the invoice industry
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lizimo
Typst has probably saved us thousands of dollars
generating PDF documents programmatically.
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> domoritz
You might already do this, but great opportunity to
support them with a donation.
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wps
> A single document can now contain multiple
bibliographiesI have been waiting on this one for years
now. Great work.
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ravenical
see also: https://typst.app/blog/2026/typst-0.15
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lejalv
Reminder that it's 2026 and batch-mode typesetting seems
an oddly low bar for what we can get from a
computer.Tree-structured documents in a live (WYSIWYG)
typesetter with a programmable editor are possible, as is
demonstrated by https://texmacs.org
(https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html if you
don't have it installed).
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atoav
I have used many things to generate print documents and
layouted PDFs:- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Markdown with and without custom themes
- Markdown compiled to .idml to integrate into InDesign
- HTML and CSS
- LATeXTypst is so far one of the most enjoyable ways of
programmatically generating layouted stuff I ever used.The
only thing missing is a good Desktop editor that allows
dumb users to double-click a .typ file and see/edit the
file instead of having to setup VSCode, plugins etc.
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