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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pubtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI 🖤 LaTeX
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    2 months ago

    Pros of typst:

    • It makes you happy while using it because it just works
    • Packages are available in typst universe and you don’t need to install 2000 Debian packages to be able to use it reasonably because most things are just available
    • There are some super cool packages like that diagrams one, or that inline comments one.
    • If you have an error, it tells you what the fucking problem is instead of printing 2000 lines of crap and saying overfull hbox 200 times
    • There are many templates for all kinds of purposes
    • Math mode is a bit different from latex but mich easier to remember since you often just write things out. Fractions are just done with /, more complicated things are just writing the name out. It’s actually rather intuitive.
    • The documentation is much better than latex, especially for the base language.
    • It’s fast as fuck. My bachelor Thesis builds in milliseconds. No need to build 3 times over with each being 5 seconds.
    • Like overleaf? typst.app has that too. Local works just as well though. Language server for neovim or other editors exist too.
    • It’s actually programmable with variables and loops and conditionals and functions and all that if you need it.

    Probably some more, just wrote a little list after waking up out of my head