Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX

starman@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Love Typst, and I hope it takes off.

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• udon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve seen this floating around a few times but are too tired to invest energy into this specific hype train. What exactly makes it stand apart from latex or markdown (then pandoced into latex)?

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s blazing fast, too, when compared with LaTeX. And another WIP feature I’m particularly excited about: HTML export.

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    • udon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for the long list! I’m not “opposed” to typst, whatever that would mean, just a bit cautious picking up new workflows/investing into skills that may become irrelevant 2 years later. But it seems that for my use case the main advantage are more useful error messages (which does suck sometimes using latex). I also see a potential new use case, if I need to use/create a new template, which can take some time with latex. The other points are not really bothering me. I write my texts in vim and build the pdf later, once the text is finished. Latex is fast enough for that.

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      • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I write my stuff in neovim with latex. Works really well. There is a live preview plugin if you want that too.

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I believe I can’t help you with this, because my motivations behind using it are different. I’ve only used latex for fun before, and now I use typst instead of regular word processor, whenever I need to create a PDF.

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• Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow. This looks fantastic. I remember using LaTeX and having a love/hate relationship.

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