Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX by moelf on Saturday October 12, 2024 @07:14PM (#41823569)

the current show-stopper issue is that Typst can't insert PDF as figure[1], this makes a lot of scientific publication workflow impossible.

[1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/145

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Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX by me_jumper on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:27AM (#41828824)

I thought about trying it. This just killed it for me...

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Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX by xkevio on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:24PM (#41829766)

It's a somewhat difficult issue and I understand being hesitant because of this. Converting to SVG is one possible path around it which isn't too bad but having it natively is of course even better.

The thing is, inserting PDF for just the PDF export would be quite easy. The issue is the other export targets Typst supports (SVG and PNG) as that would require some form of rasterization / a full blown PDF engine written in Rust without C-bindings because of the web app and that simply does not exist yet.

And the developers are hesitant to just add features for one specific export target which I get.

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