I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by huijzer on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:44PM (#48285715)

Uhm why not Typst? I published my thesis and another book in it and it worked great. They are also working on HTML output which should make it easier to create EPUBs. Until then Pandoc should work I think

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by dustin1114 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:23PM (#48289185)

typst is great. I experimented with it, it I simply didn't have the fine-tuning and maturity LaTeX. For example, window/orphan control is a binary on/off, while LaTeX calculates by penalties at a much lower level. Pandoc is also great (I used it often for unrelated workflows), but it can't map custom styles from ODT files (not sure about Word).

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by huijzer on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:01AM (#48290262)

Seems it’s currently a percentage: https://forum.typst.app/t/how-to-leave-a-single-line-of-para...

On Pandoc I agree. Word custom styles is possible I believe but it will be a mess (as usual with Word).

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by ahknight on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:06AM (#48295479)

The funny thing is that you can use both a style template and content template with the DOCX exporter of pandoc and _export_ custom styles. You just can't import them.

Works great on my MD -> DOCX/PDF/HTML workflows but not the inverse, alas.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by huijzer on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:25PM (#48314944)

It also makes no sense to go reverse. Maybe practically, but from the Word generated garbage your not gonna get something useful

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