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Re:Ask HN: Have you built internal tools to generate complex... by zarekr on Sunday April 27, 2025 @11:45AM (#43812717)
Typst is really good for this. The syntax takes a little bit of getting used to but on the whole I’ve had a lot of success producing contracts and other legal documents with it. I tend to assemble the input files using a templating engine and then use the compiler in a subprocess. The compiler is very fast and the development is pretty active. The output is much easier to manage than with packages like reportlab.

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