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Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS by matricaria on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:51PM (#39031764)
How does this compare to Typst?[1]

What I like about Typst is that I can use it completely offline and with my editor of choice. Is this planned for htmldocs too?

[1] https://typst.app/

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Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS by kelvinzhang on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:27PM (#39037848)
Offline isn’t a priority at the moment but can be done in the future by packaging with Electron.

Typst is great but there are a few key differences:

- full CSS support, allowing for more customizability and familiar styling without a learning curve

- less tailored towards academic use-cases are more towards personal/business use-cases like resumes, invoices, reports. Also adding a template gallery in the near future.

- has a templating engine and API baked in

- can use JS packages and ecosystem (ex. icon sets, fonts, etc.)

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