Hacker News Reader

Comment by MildlySerious | Hacker News Reader

Typst[1] is, imo, worth adding to the conversation. I recently used the CLI (and VSCode extensions) to put together a flyer, and I am testing it for invoice generation. So far I am quite enjoying it as a way to put together PDFs programmatically.

[1] https://typst.app/

View on HN

Using Quarto on top of Typst gives you all the media size and layout options of Typst along with quickly pivoting or adding on other outputs using Quarto. https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html

Though I use Typst on its own for my CV since I primarily needed it in PDF. Almost every other project I create starts with `quarto create project`. https://github.com/mintyfrankie/brilliant-CV

I just ported my md to pdf (via LaTeX) to use Typst. There are still a few nagging issues but overall Typst is 10x better than LaTeX (for my needs which is writing technical books like Effective Pandas).

we used typst for the second verison of https://hypermedia.systems and it was a significantly better experience than ASCIIDOC

Repo:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/hypermedia-systems-book

Blog on the port:

https://denizaksimsek.com/2024/new-hypermedia-systems/

Thnx for the tip. Will definitely check it out

I came here to say the same thing. I have some experience with both asciidoc and typst and anybody uses/tried using asciidoc should try typst and see for themselves how good it is.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com