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I am happily experimenting with Typst right now (https://typst.app/ ), which compiles much faster than LaTeX and with a syntax very similar to md, together with nice support for math, figures and advanced settings.

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Typst is great, but really doesn't really serve the primary use case of mdbook which is building documentation websites or digital knowledge gardens that are accessible as a website.

If you are typesetting a research paper or writing a technical book for print publication typst is a great solution, but for a lot folks not having web support is an absolute dealbreaker.

Apparently HTML output support is coming for typst. I'm very keen, since to be honest markdown just isn't powerful enough to support a lot of the typesetting I want to do. For example, using markdown you can't put text in boxes, reuse styles, link references to diagrams or sections, number headings, do math, and so on.

All of this stuff is crazy useful in typesetting. I love markdown, but its missing too many features.

It has been coming for a while. But I am looking forward to it. It is the only thing preventing me from using it.

Typst, with MathJax for math would be ideal! But I don't want to have to learn yet another syntax for math when LaTeX's math mode is burned into my brain.

This is the main difficulty for me in learning Typst. I think LaTeX is unnecessarily verbose for simple documents. But I know its "equation part", the part within $$, well, and I don't want to have to relearn it.

It's been talked about here a bunch of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Typst

Typst is amazing. You try it once and never want to go back to LaTeX again.

Does anyone use Typst for multi-page documentation website? This is the most common use-case of mdbook.

Given that Typst doesn't (yet) support html output, this seems impossible. I'd absolutely love to see it though.

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