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A markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. - typst/typst

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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  • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    2 days ago

    It might have a better UX than LaTeX but by design it also has the same double-edge sword feature - if you want or need to do something that is not covered by the default styles you have to rely on 3rd party plugins. That’s just fine for academic papers and such but not when you need a custom style.

    Imho ConTeXt still is the king on that side. Though I wish it had the same development pace and documentation as LaTeX’s - or at least as Typst’s

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
      12·
      13 hours ago

      Since when is UX the cause of a need for third-party plugins?

      LaTeX is an incredibly mature puece of software, since it exists for some 50 years and is (and was) incredibly popular. Of vourse newer players won’t have as much ready-made plugins, let alone first-party pavkages for most stuff.

      Latex surely had the exact same issue when it wasn’t as mature as it is today, but in time people wrote plugins and in more time they were included as defaults.

      Comparing them quality-wise on equal footing and proclaiming Latex better than the younger, less popular alternative with less developed community code is disingenuous at best.

      And UI/UX has absolutely nothing to do with styling: both are features, and one product happens to have one while the other happens to have the other.