Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. [1.1]
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This actually looks good. Though at this point I get annoyed at anything that doesn’t make an effort to be compatible with Markdown - idk if there’s any good reason they chose
#as the symbol for introducing code lines, but surely it makes sense with the ubiquity of markdown to make that start a header. Similarly with*for emphasis and whatnot.But it genuinely looks like a good effort to dispense with the backslashes and braces of LaTeX yet retain a coherent and comprehensive mathematical output.
What is surprising is that it doesn’t appear to ultimately just call through to TeX. That probably means it has a chance of having good error handling and decent performance… I will have to give it a try.