Paolo AmorosoThis is the overview article I needed on Typst. It concisely explains how the document preparation system works, in what it differs from LaTeX, and why it may be a suitable replacement for LaTeX.
Georg TuparevA few years ago, my team developed a LaTeX editor for iOS, specially for maths teachers who do not know LaTeX. It is still widely used by maths teachers who create content for one of the US publishing houses. Perhaps the problem is not TeX but the editors? No one writes plain PDF or PS, but everyone uses them.
Still the best Sci editor app I’ve ever used was the FrameMaker for NeXTStep. Perhaps we should focus our efforts in this direction?
@tuparev Power users probably prefer directly typing code in a formatting language as WYSIWYG editors introduce friction.
For something as simple as MD - definitely yes (although I wish editor support when creating large tables). For writing a paper with well defined (by the publisher) LaTeX template - perhaps. For writing a book or another long text - no.
In addition, LaTeX could be made more attractive for new comers, Word users, and scientist from fields like biology, geology, etc.
Ali M@amoroso Never touching anything written in Rust 😷
juanfal@amoroso and what about amazing packages as Tikz?
inscript@amoroso more and more of my work/personal notes are in typst. never written a single line of latex before. go figure.
@inscript That's an interesting use case.
@amoroso Also check out tinymist (an unofficial typst compiler/language server) - it's a good example of the little seedlings of an underdeveloped but growing ecosystem. The R community has also caught on to Typst in some interesting ways. I think I may try to use my static site generator to call out to tinymist for SVG diagram generations (as opposed to something like mermaid) but not there yet. Either way, glad you've found it! Fun space.