Cosmo@lina So – can you tell me about typst?
How come your are an ambassador?
How come your are an ambassador?
lina isidora@ChrSt oh its just something i call myself because i love to yap about it
typst is a typesetting language like LaTeX but more modern and is basically a weird programming language
typesetting/rich text writing is closer to markdown/asciidoc than latex, but you can do really powerful things with the programming language part of it
this is an example from their github:
#set page(width: 10cm, height: auto)
#set heading(numbering: "1.")
= Fibonacci sequence
The Fibonacci sequence is defined through the
recurrence relation $F_n = F_(n-1) + F_(n-2)$.
It can also be expressed in _closed form:_
$ F_n = round(1 / sqrt(5) phi.alt^n), quad
phi.alt = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 $
#let count = 8
#let nums = range(1, count + 1)
#let fib(n) = (
if n <= 2 { 1 }
else { fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) }
)
The first #count numbers of the sequence are:
#align(center, table(
columns: count,
..nums.map(n => $F_#n$),
..nums.map(n => str(fib(n))),
))
@lina OH wow – I was actually not aware. I had it memorized as "just an Overleaf alternative". I see I was totally wrong.
Great I learned something today! :)
Great I learned something today! :)
@lina I was just typing a question about running it with (client) confidential stuff – but I just saw it even is OSS and I can run it completely locally and "plans" are just an added SaaS offering‽
@ChrSt one thing that i really don't like about it, tho, is that most of the community activity is on discord.. they have a forum but not sure how active that is tbh
@ChrSt well it is an overleaf alternative too, the first-party editor is pretty great :p but yeah, it's more of a "latex and overleaf alternative"
there's also an online package registry: https://typst.app/universe/
which you can use in documents with a simple
#import "@preview/<package_name>"
you can also use it locally in e.g. vscode with the tinymist extension, that has smarter tools than the official editor
@lina I am more of a Neo Vim type of person but I see they have my back! :)
@ChrSt yeah, you can use it with anything that supports LSP if i remember correctly