This is the overview article I needed on Typst. It concisely explains how the document preparation system works, in what it differs from LaTeX, and why it may be a suitable replacement for LaTeX.
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@amoroso more and more of my work/personal notes are in typst. never written a single line of latex before. go figure.
@amoroso and what about amazing packages as Tikz?
@amoroso Never touching anything written in Rust 😷
A few years ago, my team developed a LaTeX editor for iOS, specially for maths teachers who do not know LaTeX. It is still widely used by maths teachers who create content for one of the US publishing houses. Perhaps the problem is not TeX but the editors? No one writes plain PDF or PS, but everyone uses them.
Still the best Sci editor app I’ve ever used was the FrameMaker for NeXTStep. Perhaps we should focus our efforts in this direction?
@tuparev Power users probably prefer directly typing code in a formatting language as WYSIWYG editors introduce friction.
For something as simple as MD - definitely yes (although I wish editor support when creating large tables). For writing a paper with well defined (by the publisher) LaTeX template - perhaps. For writing a book or another long text - no.
In addition, LaTeX could be made more attractive for new comers, Word users, and scientist from fields like biology, geology, etc.
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