KalciferMar 18

Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use"

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56998808

Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use" - sh.itjust.works

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Show threadcoolie4Mar 18

I’ve been meaning to learn LaTeX but never got around to it. I write documents in markdown and convert to PDF, but would like to have some rich typesetting.

For anyone who has ever used both, would you recommend learning this or LaTeX for non-academic use case?

Show threadbadabim

Typst is way simpler to learn, especially if you’re used to markdown. You can first approach it as a markup language like markdown, but with some scripting.

Package management in LaTeX is infuriatingly bad, you can’t even specify the version you want to use.

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