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Re:Typst – Compose Papers Faster by cl3misch on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:30AM (#38360121)
Maybe OP means the collaboration feature. I don't know whether local typst supports that though. Expecting online collaboration in "local first" may be an oxymoron in itself...
Re:Typst – Compose Papers Faster by mgunyho on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:50AM (#38360250)
The pro version of Overleaf supports offline work with a simple trick: every Overleaf document can be accessed as a git repo. It's a bit limited (there's no branches or tags, and it breaks the "track changes" feature) and trying to convince the average researcher to learn git is a challenge, but if you know git it works quite well.
Re:Typst – Compose Papers Faster by JCGoran on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:55AM (#38362010)
There's also the fact that you can't auth using pub keys, and are consequently stuck using password auth (as a workaround, I usually just set the credential cache expiration to some huge value). Despite this, it's only half-annoying, but again, as you pointed out, only if one of your collaborators happens to have the premium version.

I really hope the typst webapp gets git support soon so it at least gets feature parity with Overleaf in this department (issue tracker: https://github.com/typst/webapp-issues/issues/25).

Re:Typst – Compose Papers Faster by matricaria on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:37AM (#38360153)
As far as I know, local Typst does not support collaboration. At least not in the way the online version and Overleaf do.